Sentence examples for threatening valuable from inspiring English sources

At the same time, local authorities are making swingeing cuts to their own environmental services and staff, an extensive new road-building programme is threatening valuable wildlife sites, and Conservative ministers are looking again at the possibility of undoing powerful EU wildlife laws which provide the strongest countryside protection of all in Britain.

Expanding monoculture threatens valuable services from land, such as flood control, water purification and climate stabilization.

Hastily authorised, as well as illegal, forest clearings still threaten valuable corridors of native forest and their incredible biodiversity including jaguars, giant armadillos and Chacoan peccaries (which resemble hairy jungle pigs).

Military prosecutors say the leaks threatened valuable military and diplomatic sources.

Animal-rights advocates say that the current system of self-regulation hasn't worked and fosters an excessive use of animals, while opponents argue that the guidelines go too far to correct existing problems and threaten valuable research.

The concern is that Aereo threatens a valuable source of income.

That would seem to threaten a valuable source of nutrition for the poor.

Fragmentation of seagrass (Zostera marina) beds has become increasingly common, and it may threaten the valuable ecosystem services they provide.

Agricultural intensification in recent decades and current installation of new irrigation systems threaten these valuable habitats, set to be included in the Natura2000 network.

Broadcasters and publishers knew that coverage that displeased the government could threaten a valuable concession, cut off newsprint supplies, bring on a tax audit or cost government advertising.

Specifically, current water management practices in the Zambezi have affected people's livelihoods by the frequent unpredictable releases of water that wash away riverbank crops, impoverish fish stocks and fish habitat, and threaten the valuable shrimp exports.