Sentence examples for environmental treasure from inspiring English sources
Locals may be insouciant, but among environmentalists in Russia and abroad, the Baikalsk Pulp and Paper mill symbolizes the abuse of an environmental treasure.
Mr. Gore is just as staunchly opposed to opening what he calls "this environmental treasure" to drilling, arguing the country needs to focus on conservation and other ways of decreasing demand.
"You take any substantive provision of CEQA and an advocate can credibly cite an example where that provision was used to save an environmental treasure," Steinberg said.
But not in the environmental treasures of our country.
"We do not have to sacrifice our environment and our environmental treasures in order to satisfy the appetite of big oil companies to go into new areas".
Now another big difference is Governor Bush is proposing to open up our, some of our most precious environmental treasures, like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to the big oil companies to go in and start producing oil there.
Sven Lindblad, CEO of Lindblad Expeditions who provided leadership support to the conference, highlighted the importance of the World Heritage collection of environmental treasures.
Thankfully, our forefathers had the foresight to preserve our environmental treasures by laying the groundwork for an extensive national park system that continues to expand today.
All the engineering safeguards in the world can't guarantee protection against a similar catastrophe in the frozen north, a disaster that could alter forever the sensitive ecological balance of one of the world's greatest environmental treasures.
For those Manusians who had long dreamed of capitalising on their military, environmental and cultural treasures to build a tourism market, their island's portrayal in the Australian deterrence campaign as a "hellhole" has been galling.
Mr. Babbitt has enlarged the regulatory power of the interior secretary, using his office to deny permits to mines that are considered a threat to environmental or cultural treasures owned by all Americans.
