causing damage to the environment

The campaign group support other measures that it considers would improve local transport without causing damage to the environment.

The team's looking for ways of improving tourist facilities at historic sites without causing damage to the environment.

With an increase in population and their demands, vast stretches of land were either degraded or converted into unicrop areas, causing damage to the environment.

• Biotechnology can be used both positively, to help fix and avoid ecological damage, but also negatively, by causing damage to the environment.

The chief concerns are that changes in an organism might enable it to proliferate out of control, possibly causing damage to the environment or to human health.

Instead of the wastes being recycled, they me allowed to accumulate or contaminate fragile ecosystems, thereby wasting valuable resources and causing damage to the environment.

Report any spills causing damage to the environment immediately to the WellingtonDufferin-Guelph Health Unit and the MOE Spills Action Centre.

Clarke agrees that if these more potent poisons are used responsibly as part of a concentrated "short, sharp, shock," then rat populations can be effectively controlled without causing damage to the environment.

By walking on the edges, cutting corners or taking a new path, you are causing damage to the environment, not to mention causing visual pollution and possible confusion about the right track to take.

Article 15 Sporting activities (1) The Contracting Parties undertake to define a policy for controlling outdoor sporting activities, especially in protected areas, in order to avoid causing damage to the environment.

The government brought in a new mining law in 2009 that restricts the operation of small-scale miners, who tend to operate in an undisciplined way, causing damage to the environment, and do not pay royalties.

Recalling Resolution 1229 (2000) on accidents causing damage to the environment (Appendix 2), the Committee expressed its dissatisfaction with the slow progress made in implementing the recommendations adopted by the Assembly two years earlier.

The Assembly points out that it has already put forward concrete action proposals for safer sea transport of oil, in particular following the Erika accident (see Resolution 1229 on accidents causing damage to the environment).

Colonel Rabe Abubakar, spokesman for the military taskforce which patrols the Niger Delta, said ”miscreants” had attacked and damaged a facility in the Cawthorne Channel, causing damage to the environment, but had no further details.

The sinking of the Prestige highlights once again the problems indicated by the Assembly in its Resolution 1229 (2000) on accidents causing damage to the environment, adopted on 29 September 2002, concerning the regulation of maritime transport of oil and petrol.

Expert marksmen in helicopters were brought in by the government to cull the camels, however the problem remains with hundreds of thousands of the camels still roaming large across central Australia, causing damage to the environment and creating havoc among the local Aboriginal communities.

If an individual nevertheless secures exclusive rights of use in a specific case, e.g. by acquiring ownership, then he/she is protected by the laws on basic rights concerning use of property, but has a duty to the community to refrain from causing damage to the environment.