Sentence examples for ecologically pristine from inspiring English sources

A Suburban Wilderness And yet the Pinelands are far from being ecologically pristine.

The idea was to remove these plants to help keep the archipelago ecologically pristine.

Indeed, covering the 2010 Belgian general election, I felt like a palaeontologist exploring some ecologically pristine Venezuelan tepui, stumbling upon species not seen elsewhere since the Ice Age.

Looking around the table, I calculated that, collectively, we would be burning through roughly thirty-two thousand air miles to enjoy a fanatically locavore, ecologically pristine meal.

The government has been accused of misleading the UN in its bid to strip world heritage protection from tracts of Tasmanian forest, after the release of pictures purportedly showing that ecologically pristine areas will be delisted.

Analysts had since recognized that urban areas differed ecologically from more-pristine systems; urban areas exhibited an altered hydrology, atmosphere, and regimes of temperature, light, sound, and food availability, along with countless other factors.

The Southern Ocean circles Antarctica and remains one of the most pristine and ecologically rich oceans on earth.

Drilling in the refuge would suggest that the fossil fuel corporations have won, and that nothing is too good, too pristine, too ecologically valuable to set aside from that pursuit.

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, encompassing the eastern part of the range, protects one of the world's most pristine and ecologically diversified high-latitude wilderness areas; it is home to some 200 species of birds, more than 35 different kinds of land mammals (notably polar bears, caribou, musk oxen, wolverines, and wolves), and several species of marine mammals and fish.

Without missing a beat, the Canadian government and the oil lobby have turned their sights to another proposed pipeline, known as the Northern Gateway, which would carry raw bitumen across the pristine and ecologically sensitive Great Bear Rainforest to the marine port of Kitimat in British Columbia.

Because these populations are in relatively pristine habitats, these ecologically based gene expression differences provide a reference for published and future studies of sockeye salmon in habitats more impacted by human activities [ 17, 36, 37] Riverine sockeye have a deep, robust body compared with the lake-type life history [ 27].