Sentence examples for natural shorelines from inspiring English sources

Our coast has suffered as we have built on and in front of dunes, filled in wetlands and allowed development of our natural shorelines.

Increasing coastal urbanisation has replaced many natural shorelines with seawalls or revetments.

Seawalls, which have replaced many natural shorelines in coastal cities, are increasingly built to alleviate the impacts of rising sea levels.

Seawalls typically lack the complex microhabitats and protective spaces of natural shorelines and consequently organisms that settle on them may be particularly susceptible to predation.

Surveys conducted at 4 sites in Kogarah Bay, New South Wales, Australia, on 3 dates during autumn-winter 2016 revealed that on natural shorelines most wrack accumulated at the high intertidal mark.

Meanwhile, the rapid expansion of sea reclamation has caused problems due to the oversized scale and extensive use of the sea, resulting in the loss of large quantities of coastal shoal wetlands and natural shorelines and leading to continued deterioration of marine ecological environment.

The park, with walkways, lawns and a natural shoreline, is being designed by Mathews Nielsen, landscape architects in Manhattan.

Where Joralemon Street meets the river, the team hopes to restore a hint of the natural shoreline.

Opponents say the project will benefit private owners of oceanfront properties at public expense and spur development that will interfere with natural shoreline processes.

They include measures to protect the river from pollution and to reinvigorate communities, rather than creating suburban sprawl, and to preserve and restore the natural shoreline, thus boosting the river's natural ecosystem, Mr. Janeway said.

About 150 years after the natural shoreline disappeared, replaced by bulkheads and piers, state officials and the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation hope to return estuary grasses to a cove near the Manhattan Bridge.