Sentence examples for of existing protected from inspiring English sources

It is no easy task in a region where "fish bombing" with dynamite or cyanide is routine, and where the enforcement of existing protected zones is often anemic.

The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, also showed that protection is most effective when human use of land for farming is minimised, suggesting better management of existing protected areas could more than double their effectiveness.

Connectivity is a valuable element for bridging that gap and building the ecological resilience of existing protected areas.

We propose a more economical set of protected areas by reducing the extent to which new sites duplicate the biodiversity content of existing protected areas.

We use comprehensiveness, adequacy and representativeness (CAR) criteria as a framework to examine the efficiency of existing protected areas and to define gaps in the current reserve system, based on multivariate environmental space.

Model outputs may be used to guide decisions about the location and design of future protected areas and development, and to prioritize adaptation of existing protected area investments.

There was a large difference in landscape structure between existing and candidate protected areas due to the spatial bias of the existing protected areas; these areas were characterized by a high proportion of forest areas and low landscape heterogeneity, while candidate protected areas had a low proportion of forest areas and high landscape heterogeneity.

These changes have substantial impacts on the biodiversity of the region but no conservation strategy has ever explicitly considered them, and no systematic assessment of the existing protected areas has been carried out.

For the entire biome, just over half of the existing protected areas are projected to retain the mediterranean climate with high confidence, even under the high emissions scenario (Figure 4).

A crucial gap exists between the static nature of the United States' existing protected areas and the dynamic impacts of 21st century stressors, such as habitat loss and fragmentation and climate change.

As for discrete areas of endemism, amphibian areas receive the greatest protection: 67% of the area occurs within existing protected areas.