She and the Louisiana Environmental Action Network have been using the courts and political connections to compel BP to provide respirators and other protective gear to workers out on the boats fighting the spill, and to protect vulnerable populations on land.
While many seabirds are diurnal, the majority of petrels (e.g. Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae) and some auks (Alcidae) that are vulnerable to predation on land, are nocturnal on their breeding grounds.
Second, the Pacific leaping blenny is acutely vulnerable to predation on land [ 28].
It is particularly suited to upland rain-fed agricultural areas on soft rocks, which are highly vulnerable to land degradation.
Many people in rural areas of the Dominican Republic and neighbouring Haiti live in flimsy homes built on land vulnerable to floods and landslides.
Microbial pollution of surface waters in agricultural catchments can be a consequence of poor farm management practices, such as excessive stocking of livestock on vulnerable land or inappropriate handling of manures and slurries.
The inquiry has heard how a shortage of helicopters in both Iraq and Afghanistan exacerbated the problem as troops had to rely more on vulnerable Snatch Land Rovers than they otherwise would have had to.
Then last year, The Shallows amped up the tension with a Cast Away-style set-up, with Blake Lively carrying most of the film while marooned on a reef, hoping to get back on land, while vulnerable to the elements and a hungry, circling great white.
Poor Mr Hague is sure that Mr Blair is vulnerable on Europe, but cannot land a glove on him.Tory perplexity is a pleasant thing for Mr Blair to behold.
And on the other end of the spectrum, the direct payments program (aka "farm subsidies") refuses payments to farmers who fail to meet certain standards when farming on land that is vulnerable to erosion.
