Sentence examples for maintaining viable from inspiring English sources

The Bush administration changed the rule last year so it required a framework of protection, rather than maintaining viable populations of wildlife.

At stake was a provision of the National Forest Management Act that required maintaining viable populations of species that indicate the health of an ecosystem, like spotted owl.

The Obama administration's proposed rules improve on the Bush rules and are full of high-minded promises about maintaining "viable" animal populations.

The vertical design addresses ptosis while maintaining viable skin flaps.

Firstly, always maintaining viable protocorms can save about 5 weeks, the amount of time needed for seeds to develop.

Knowledge of the habitat requirements of threatened species at both local and landscape scales is crucial for maintaining viable populations and for making conservation and management decisions.

Female bats, for instance, maintain viable sperm inside themselves for months.

But it increasingly accepts the notion that countries need to maintain viable social safety nets to protect the most vulnerable.

All three states have weak plans — not one has made a firm, enforceable commitment to maintain viable wolf populations — but Wyoming's is the worst.

For example, the groups said, the current forest rules, put in place in 1982, require that the forest be managed to maintain "viable populations" of all native fish and wildlife.

Farmers need to be encouraged to farm fewer animals in a more sustainable way and maintain viable livelihoods, while retailers and manufactures should start 'choice editing' by promoting plant foods, educating customers and phase out imports of air freighted products from rich or middle income countries.