Sentence examples for refuge area from inspiring English sources

Nearly all farmers (99.8%) allow no spatial separation between the Bt maize field and adjacent refuge area.

The new building has extra safety features, including wider emergency stairwells and a fire-resistant refuge area on each floor.

Along with iconic places like the Arctic refuge area in Alaska, it is a legacy of President Theodore Roosevelt, who established the first wildlife refuges.

Farmers preferred to plant the refuge option where 5% of the field area is planted to conventional maize, which is not sprayed with insecticide instead of the 20% refuge area on which insecticide application against the target pest is allowed.

Initial levels of refuge compliance were low, and even though farmers were obligated to plant a refuge area for each Bt maize field, only 7.7% of farmers planted refuges during 1998.

Since 2007, Mexico has been implementing a ban on the use of gilnets by fishermen in a refuge area for the species and has a voluntary programme of fishing permit buyouts.

The Buenos Aires refuge is among the most troubled of the 551 refuge areas across the country, the federal government says.

Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex comprises a collection of several refuge areas spread out to the northwest of the city.

The Act excluded from its application certain designated lands, 3 but did not exclude lands within wildlife refuge areas.

Spacing between refuge areas, now about 1.5 miles, will be reduced to a mile to provide "greater reassurance" to motorists.

Different strategies to exploit refuge areas exist, but several insect-related ecological traits may directly affect the efficiency of refuges in slowing the development of resistance.