Sentence examples for sensitive ecosystems from inspiring English sources

Forests must be respected as sensitive ecosystems.

Teixeira hinted that this could continue by saying protection measures would remain strong in sensitive ecosystems.

Mr. Bush's positions include logging more forests, drilling for more oil in sensitive ecosystems and instituting voluntary pollution-control measures.

In their view, a housing development would seriously impact the water quality of 130,000 local residents, as well as damage sensitive ecosystems in the Long Island Sound.

It piles up on beaches, creates a navigational hazard for boats or settles to the bottom, where it can damage sensitive ecosystems.

The convention calls for the conservation of genetic resources by preserving sensitive ecosystems, rehabilitating degraded ecosystems, and enacting legislation that protects endangered plant and animal species.

The Sand Hills region has a high concentration of wetlands, a sensitive ecosystem and extensive areas of very shallow groundwater that could be endangered by an oil spill.

Parties to the treaty are studying effects of tourism in order to provide regulations for ensuring protection of Antarctica's highly sensitive ecosystem.

He and other critics contend that the dumping will harm the sensitive ecosystem by smothering corals and seagrasses and exposing marine mammals and other organisms to toxic substances.

Among other things, the study confirms that the dolphins' most-eaten food is a fish that lives in seagrass, a sensitive ecosystem.

If a contaminant remains under the critical load value, the effect on the sensitive ecosystem receptor or target is minimal, and the ecosystem is not degraded further.