In the first ban of its kind, officials hope the move will save money and help protect vulnerable habitats.

Vulnerable habitat or species are monitored and can become increasingly threatened.

We’ve required industry to modify some gear types to reduce the impact on vulnerable habitat and by-catch.

According to the United Nations, deep-water coral reefs are a vulnerable habitat which require special attention.

The dwarf forest, a vulnerable habitat.

Two particularly vulnerable habitats where grazing needs to be closely monitored are moorland and lowland heathland.

The conservation group is backing efforts in Alaska and Russia to help protect vulnerable habitats from the effects of arctic oil exploration.

Both have suffered from a loss of wildflowers, the latter dependent on heathland which is recognised as a nationally vulnerable habitat.

Mata Atlântica is a unique but vulnerable habitat, threatened by logging, mining, agriculture, road and house building.

This, they tell National Public Radio, could help restore vulnerable habitats for wolf, bears and others that rely on coastal areas.

Biodiversity-rich freshwater ecosystems are currently declining faster than marine or land ecosystems making them the world's most vulnerable habitats.

The review also concentrates more on the management of deep-sea fish stocks than on broader ecosystem considerations, such as the protection of vulnerable habitats.

Many projects funded by LIFENature have to do with restoring wetlands and other vulnerable habitats.

The Bureau of Land Management has enacted conservation measures such as fencing populations to exclude grazing animals and closing roads in vulnerable habitat.

It is the hope that these students turn this education into increased awareness of the conservation issues facing both these forests and vulnerable habitats everywhere in the world.

In June 2011, for instance, Sumatra’s Tropical Rainforest was added to the danger list because of poaching and plans to build roads through the vulnerable habitat.

At the heart of Plant Explorers is the idea of preservation – expressed through the careful cultivation of species from far-off, vulnerable habitats and more literally.

The project has involved more than 2,000 scientists from 80 countries, and the researchers involved believe the census will lay the scientific foundations for marine policies to protect vulnerable habitats.

Across the Arctic some 1 400 species of plants and 200 species of fauna are endangered, vulnerable or rare, while serious gaps exist in the protection of vulnerable habitats.

Any boat encountering these vulnerable habitats will have to stop fishing and move on, and all boats engaged in fisheries in these areas will have to carry scientific observers.

"Only a small proportion of these vulnerable habitats and species have achieved good conservation status and member states will need to strengthen their efforts if this situation is to improve," a commission statement said.

In the West, the populated fire zone is called the urban wildland interface, a clunky term to describe a vulnerable habitat for almost 40 percent of new homes built over the last two decades.

These regional bodies should have the capacity to find and protect vulnerable habitat and other marine resources, and the teeth to deal harshly with those who break the rules at the environment’s expense.

The island has been designated by the South Georgia Government as a Specially Protected Area, and has been closed to visitors since 2004, to protect vulnerable habitat from trampling.

For these sites, a detailed management plan should be developed, which takes into consideration the different levels of carrying capacity of different habitats, tourism development should be directed at less vulnerable habitats.