Sentence examples for protected parks from inspiring English sources

Indigenous lands contain 5 times the land area of fully protected parks and form the majority of protected land in highly contested areas [30].

A quarter of Costa Rica is protected parks and reserve, but the crown jewel is Corcovado national park, 164 square miles of rainforest in the Osa peninsula, fringed by empty Pacific beach.

Otherwise the countryside will not disappear: it will just slowly lose the sense of rurality that remains a blessed feature of the 65% of England that lies outside towns and protected parks and green belts.

Simultaneously, huge decisions being made about our "protected" parks and public lands show them to be incredibly vulnerable to politics.

Though most of the construction was done in the name of the Olympics, Vitishko said much of it was actually beneficial only to tourism businesses that wanted to build on previously protected parks land.

Strictly protected parks allow no habitation or clearing.

And there is still Great Kills Harbor, a boat-studded cove sheltered on one side by a federally protected park.

This is the best plan, according to Wilkin, in secluded areas, where the smell of a decomposing whale is less likely to bother people, and on protected park land, where people can be kept away and scavengers are abundant.

Many mourners declined to be interviewed, including Mr. Han, who was whisked away in a silver Mercedes — past a crowd of television crews and photographers — into a protected parking lot.

The entire island is an UNESCO World Heritage site, with 70percentt of the land protected park preserve and the surrounding waters a marine preserve.

Loss of habitat because of agriculture has also contributed to its decline, though this is no longer as significant a factor because the rhinoceros only lives in one nationally protected park.