Sentence examples for pristine status from inspiring English sources

If Galapagos wants to retain its relatively pristine status (it is still the best-preserved tropical archipelago in the world), it is crucial that its residents are involved like this.

These houses, the sources said, had declined to accept the collection, despite its pristine status, because Mr. Marciano had asked them to buy it outright for about $7.4 million, and they had been unwilling to accept the risk of not recovering their investment.

As a result, the river's pristine status in hydrological condition, nutrients structure and aquatic ecosystem has been shifted to "lacustrine/reservoir" autotrophic type prevailing with planktons [46].

Interestingly, AbR can be considered a collective compensatory bacterial action tending to restore a pristine status of equilibrium between colonized hosts and environments (Brown et al. 2012; Viana et al. 2014).

"The course is in pristine condition.

Indeed, to place the assessment on an absolute scale accounting for historical overfishing would require the determination of pristine ecosystem statuses [4], [28], a complex undertaking.

The Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) provides for the protection of water bodies that represent pristine or near-pristine condition, classified as high ecological status through the adoption of an agri-environmental decision making process that promotes stakeholder participation.

The Kowmung is one of only seven rivers in New South Wales that have been declared as wild rivers: a status only given to rivers in near-pristine condition.

Marine benthic macrophytes (seaweeds, seagrasses) were used as bioindicators of ecosystem shifts due to anthropogenic stress, from the pristine state with late-successional species (high ecological status class (ESC)) to the degraded state with opportunistic species (bad ESC).

Pukara enjoyed its status as a pristine state until about 500, when it was absorbed by Tiwanaku, the principal state on the other side of the Lake Titicaca basin.

In Western Australia, the pristine Ningaloo Reef, which was awarded World Heritage status last year, lacks protection, despite the controversial planned construction of one of the world's largest gas hubs at nearby James Price Point.