Sentence examples for native river from inspiring English sources

But efforts are under way to restore the Bronx River, and even to reintroduce native river herring.

The native river fish that are still caught don't survive the journey to the fire pits on Abu Nuwas.

We assessed changes in microbial community composition under two treatments in a replicated factorial design: sunlight exposure versus shaded and presence versus absence of native river microbiota.

The 20th-century re-engineering of the Mississippi River wreaked havoc on natural systems and devastated once-abundant populations of native river shrimp.

The dam blocked the annual migration of native river prawns (Macrobrachium vollenhoveni) that are voracious predators of the snail intermediate hosts for schistosomiasis.

Data indicated that the presence of native river microbiota, rather than exposure to sunlight, accounted for the majority of variation between treatments for both 16S (R = 0.50; P > 0.001) and 18S (R = 0.91; P = 0.001) communities.

Other fish species have been able adapt to pond habitat in place of their native rivers.

The Swedish salmon feed in the southern Baltic for possibly up to two or three years before returning to their native rivers.

The wild Norwegian salmon are members of an ancient species that, early in its life cycle, heads down river, swimming through Norway's famous fjords, and out to saltwater feeding grounds, before returning to their native rivers to spawn.

Here and elsewhere, the wild salmon's numbers have been reduced by uncontrolled deep-sea and coastal netting, by pollution and by habitat changes caused by everything from global warming in feeding grounds off Greenland and Iceland to road building, dams and forestry projects that scarred its native rivers.

Ken Saro-Wina, in full Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, (born Oct. 10, 1941, Bori, near Port Harcourt, Nigeria died Nov. 10, 1995, Port Harcourt), Nigerian writer and activist, who spoke out forcefully against the Nigerian military regime and the Anglo-Dutch petroleum company Royal Dutch/Shell for causing environmental damage to the land of the Ogoni people in his native Rivers state.