semi-natural

He advocates better protection in the planning system for local wildlife sites, and other remaining areas of semi-natural habitat of high wildlife value; designation of Special Sites of Scientific Interest and new incentives for private owners.

Biodiversity 100: actions for Europe Guillaume Chapron 2010

First, it is important that the remaining semi-natural habitats, corridors and stepping stones are well protected.

Biodiversity 100: actions for Europe Guillaume Chapron 2010

The UK Native Seed Hub will focus initially on plants of lowland meadows or semi-natural grassland like these oxeye daisies.

Kew unveils native flower seed bank 2011

The Woodland Trust bought Low Burnhall and its fragments of semi-natural ancient woodland three years ago, with the intention of returning 67 hectares of arable land to publicly accessible deciduous forest.

Country diary: Low Burnhall, Durham 2011

Evidence of a connection to intensive agriculture is robust, with "quantitative local surveys in southern Britain [finding] that bumblebee density and species richness are both generally lower in the more intensively farmed areas than in some open semi-natural areas".

Biodiversity 100: actions for Europe Guillaume Chapron 2010

The risk of water erosion increases as more land is brought under intensive agriculture and there is a high rate of conversion of natural and semi-natural areas into built-up areas for industrial activities, infrastructure and tourism.

Regional scenarios for Africa's future~ land 2009

Expansion of settlement areas is controlled and is less significant in conversion of natural and semi-natural systems.

Regional scenarios for Africa's future~ land 2009

The measures to stem the increasing risk of water erosion must be revised in order to adapt to climate change, avoid the conversion to agriculture of other natural and semi-natural systems and address the consequences of agricultural intensification.

Regional scenarios for Africa's future~ land 2009

A focus on the beetles of the northern forests [14] has demonstrated both that these semi-natural forests contain a relatively large number of rare species and that there are difficulties in making accurate inventories.

Arctic boreal forest environments 2009

Urban areas are embedded within agricultural land, trees are interspersed with croplands and housing, and managed vegetation is mixed with semi-natural vegetation (e.g. croplands are embedded within rangelands and forests).

Anthropogenic biomes 2009