Sentence examples for islands support from inspiring English sources

The islands support limited animal life, although more than 50 species of birds are found there, at least 16 of them indigenous, including rare tooth-billed pigeons.

But Mrs. Clinton can still pick up delegates; the Caribbean territory also sends six superdelegates to the party's nomination convention who are uncommitted (although many prominent Democrats on the islands support Mr. Obama).

The islands support more than 80,000 breeding pairs of seabirds during the summer months (including three species nesting in "internationally important numbers") with the puffin being the most numerous at 36,000 breeding pairs.

The lower reaches of the Yenisey are also much favoured in summer by migrant waterfowl from the south; the small lakes and islands support ducks, geese, and swans; and the muskrat has adapted to the channels of the delta.

The far-flung islands support local newspapers and radio stations.

Manifested at local to regional scales, islands support local people and communities, protected areas, iconic species and iconic landscapes/seascapes, regional development, and national and international tourism as well as residents who are attracted to islands for jobs in the burgeoning global tourism industry.

Already hundreds of islands supporting pockets of unusual species have been discovered deep in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, but researchers have yet to explore the region around the Antarctic peninsula.

Professor Burke said he could understand that, "except that those islands supported a large terrapin population before the humans and the raccoons came".

At their peak in 1953, the islands supported a population of more than 1,000 people and the Foreign Office paper suggests that a decision on whether any of Chagossians are allowed to return to the British overseas territory will hang on the costs to the Treasury of maintaining a community and whether they can be self-sufficient.

In June 2013, the councils of Orkney, Shetland and Na h-Eileanan Siar (the Western Isles) launched the Our Islands, Our Future campaign, an ambitious, radical and coherent plan for greater powers to be invested in the islands, supporting them in overcoming their special difficulties and maximizing the reaping of their special potential.

Deer-free islands supported the most abundant and dislandsbird fauna.