The waters are all taken in to construct the wetlands for habitat restorations.

In the end, what we realized we were making was a new blue green watery park for the next watery century an amphibious park, if you will.

But daylighting our creeks really improves their water quality and contributions to habitat.

He said, The god of love lives in a state of need.

Housing versus Habitat

A house is an object a habitat is a node in a multiplicity of overlapping networks physical (power, water and sanitation, roads), economic (urban transport, labor markets, distribution and retail, entertainment) and social (education, health, security, family, friends). The ability to connect to all of these networks makes a habitat valuable.

Approximately 400 persons remain in temporary shelters around the cities of Gonaïves and Mapou, a community in the south east of the country which was flooded in May 2004.

It's a colonial animal.

even for amphibians.

And it's destroying that precious benthic community on the bottom, things like sponges and corals, that critical habitat for other animals.

A prudent bird chooses its tree. A wise servant chooses his master.

Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals

They are under threat from building and development work that affects roosts and loss of habitat.

It had been waiting there since 1960 when Alister Hardy, a marine biologist, said, I think what happened, perhaps our ancestors had a more aquatic existence for some of the time.

They're essential to the habitat.

So I went right up to the front of the tank I was three or four inches from the front glass and the octopus was sitting on a perch, a little rock, and he came off the rock and he also came down right to the front of the glass.

Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, Ramsar, 1971, United Nations, Treaty Series, Vol. 996, No. 14583, p. 245.

In other words, we create a habitat of happiness.

They've created a habitat of happiness for Dave.

This is the particular additional habitat requirement of humanity.

80 percent of all amphibians are threatened and in come decline.

And the habitat destruction is unbelievable.

In part, amphibians are good indicators and more sensitive because they don't have protection from contaminants in the water no eggshells, no membranes and no placenta.

And we explored the surface of the Islands as well very important bird nesting site, some of the most important bird nesting sites in the Pacific, in the world.

Everybody's trying to protect the bird colonies there.

You can find spiders in nearly every terrestrial habitat.

And in all that area, they're only rarely found breeding more than five kilometers away from human beings.

These ringed seals also live out their entire life cycle associated and connected to sea ice.

And now it's just limited to a couple of spots in Nepal and India.

And when they hollow out, then they become habitats for organisms.

In it, you'll see that it's a habitat for a lot of different animals.

Rob Dewar, nature conservation adviser for NTS, hopes the results will reveal which areas of habitat are most important to the bats and how they are used by each of the species.

Fish tried amphibian life. Frogs adapted to deserts.

So, what does a sunny place need? Not habitat per se.

Our desks, our computers, our pencils, our buildings all harbor resident microbial landscapes.

So we have to be very concerned about when the noise in habitats degrades the habitat enough that the animals either have to pay too much to be able to communicate, or are not able to perform critical functions.

And they provide habitats for our little friends!

More than 90 percent, 99 percent, of the living space on our planet is ocean.

So, farming based on how a prairie builds soil, ranching based on how a native ungulate herd actually increases the health of the range, even wastewater treatment based on how a marsh not only cleans the water, but creates incredibly sparkling productivity.

We've got the old buildings, lots of veteran trees and all the good habitat.

It also provides a special habitat for these flying fish to lay their eggs.

And that lower photo, that's a bird colony that has been boomed.

They offer a pleasant respite from the high density development around them.

You could give an entire talk about the creatures that live in the mid water.

Elaine Morgan is a tenacious proponent of the aquatic ape hypothesis the idea that humans evolved from primate ancestors who dwelt in watery habitats. Hear her spirited defense of the idea and her theory on why mainstream science doesn't take it seriously.