Sentence examples for environmentally fragile from inspiring English sources

China's huge investment to increase forest cover seems likely to exacerbate environmental degradation in environmentally fragile areas because it has ignored climate, pedological, hydrological, and landscape factors that would make a site unsuitable for afforestation.

Mr. Trump's proposals for a golf course in Yorktown and another on a 213-acre estate in Bedford and New Castle have drawn fierce opposition from some residents and environmental groups who charge that building them near environmentally fragile wetlands, and maintaining them with fertilizers, would pollute their drinking water supplies.

Do they adequately protect environmentally fragile areas?

The coastline is an important tourist attraction, as well as an environmentally fragile area.

"This required a lot of thinking; this is a very tight, environmentally fragile village".

At the same time, he provoked the ire of environmentalists by reducing financing for the state's water management districts, directly affecting the environmentally fragile Everglades.

"Given this lack of openness, you have to ask if Shell is the right type of company to be allowed to expand its oil operations into the environmentally-fragile Arctic".

Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2003, this spectacular region is one of the most environmentally diverse and fragile on earth.

Over 90% of the extreme poor are in countries deemed as fragile, environmentally vulnerable or in protracted crises.

Some 59% of the extreme poor are in countries deemed as fragile, environmentally vulnerable or in protracted crises.

Some 75percentt of the world's stunted children live in conflict-affected countries, and an estimated 87percentt of all people living in extreme poverty also live in environmentally vulnerable and fragile countries.