Sentences with phrase «pacific walrus»

On World Animal Day, October 4, the Trump administration declined to list the Pacific walrus as endangered.

The Pacific walrus is found throughout the continental shelf waters of the Bering and Chukchi seas and occasionally in the East Siberian Sea and Beaufort Sea.

Using the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Obama blocked drilling in large portions of the Chukchi and Beaufort seas in the Arctic, home to several endangered species, including the bowhead whale, fin whale, Pacific walrus, and polar bear.

Feb. 9, 12:10 a.m. Updated The Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that the Pacific walrus, greatly recovered from decades of slaughter but facing stress in the warming Arctic climate, merits protection under the Endangered Species Act.

The third exhibit features one female and one male pacific walrus.

Be awed by the abundance and variety of marine mammals: Pacific walrus, northern fur seals, gray, humpback, and sperm whales, sea otters and Steller sea lions; and seabirds from the Aleutians to the Commander Islands including horned and tufted puffins, murres and rare whiskered auklets.

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There are at least two sub-species of walrus: the Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens), found in the Bering Strait region, off Alaska; and the Atlantic walrus (O. rosmarus rosmarus), found in eastern Canada and the high Arctic.

2017 Listing Proposal: Pacific walrus.

Pacific walrus use the floating pack ice both as a platform on which to rest between feeding bouts and as a passive transport around their habitat.

After all, plenty of young walruses die each year on the sea ice, and Pacific walruses have come ashore on Russian beaches in past decades during their fall migrations.

Fast - melting Arctic sea ice has forced some 35,000 Pacific walruses to retreat to the Alaska shoreline, scientists from several federal agencies said on Wednesday.

With the world's largest population of Pacific walruses and the highest density of ancestral polar bear dens, Wrangel Island offers incredible opportunities for wildlife viewing.

United States Geological Survey scientists have noted that thousands of Pacific walruses have come ashore in Alaska, as has happened in some other recent years when the ice between Russia and Alaska has pulled far offshore.

A new federal analysis projects that Pacific walruses will have a progressively tougher time in a warming Arctic increasingly bereft of sea ice in summers, but do not face outright extinction.

The FWS estimates very roughly that there are around 283,000 Pacific walruses left.

Its coasts provide refuge for Pacific walruses and ice seals and designated critical habitat for threatened polar bears.

Shaye Wolf, climate science director for the Center for Biological Diversity, the conservation group that launched legal action to get Pacific walruses listed in 2008, told Earther that the agency's claim that walruses will adapt to climate change «is baseless, and simply doesn't match the science showing that walruses are being harmed by the devastating loss of their sea ice habitat.»

Krupnik, I., and G. C. Ray, 2007: Pacific walruses, indigenous hunters, and climate change: Bridging scientific and indigenous knowledge.

Pacific walruses, indigenous hunters, and climate change: Bridging scientific and indigenous knowledge

Like ill - fated revelers at an overcrowded rock concert, thousands of Pacific walruses were stampeded to death in 2007 after disappearing sea ice forced them into close quarters on the shoreline above the Arctic Circle.

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The settlement capped a decade - long effort by the Center's scientists, attorneys and activists to safeguard 1,000 of America's most imperiled, least protected species including the walrus, wolverine, Mexican gray wolf, fisher, New England cottontail rabbit, three species of sage grouse, scarlet Hawaiian honeycreeper, California golden trout, Miami blue butterfly, Rio Grande cutthroat trout, 403 southeastern river - dependent species, 42 Great Basin springsnails and 32 Pacific Northwest mollusks.