Sentences with phrase «us endangered species list»

In 2007, the bald eagle was removed from the threatened and endangered species list.

Lyle Schaller places congregations with 85 to 200 members on his endangered species list.

The Bald Eagle is a wild animal that just came off of the endangered species list a little less than 5 years ago.

Are chickens now on the endangered species list?

And so in 1981, alligators were removed from the endangered species list.

Giant Pandas have been removed from the endangered species list, though that doesn't mean they're entirely safe.

The gray bat was added to the Endangered Species list in 1976.

The rusty patched bumblebee, Bombus affinis, recently became the first U.S. bumblebee species to be placed on the endangered species list, but a Kansas State University entomologist says bumblebee endangerment is nothing to be bugged about.

«Being on the endangered species list is not bad,» Whitworth said.

The courtroom battle had raged since the Bush administration had announced in January 2009 its decision to take gray wolves — 66 of which were reintroduced to the region in 1995 after their forebears were wiped out by hunters and ranchers a century earlier — off of the Endangered Species List.

Off the List Thanks to repopulation efforts during the past few decades, the gray wolf (Canis lupus) now thrives in the U.S., and since 2003 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been trying to move the top predator off the endangered species list — a plan opposed by groups that believe the wolves are susceptible to being overhunted [see «Out of the Woods»; SciAm, April 2003].

Many sempre - vivas species were recently removed from Brazil's endangered species list owing to deficient data.

The bill also forbids adding the sage grouse to the endangered species list.

Alas, these slugs are now on the endangered species list here in Louisiana.

In 2007 the federal government removed the bald eagle from the Endangered Species List.

Thanks to a combination of factors and the hard work of bird lovers and scientists, peregrine falcons are once again common across the U.S., graduating off the national endangered species list as of 1999.

Oil companies want the American burying beetle to be the first recovered insect taken off the U.S. endangered species list.

Schwartz now wants to do a Yellowstone - wide hair study to help pin down grizzly population trends — information that could prove pivotal in the hot debate over whether the animals are prospering enough to be removed from the U.S. endangered species list (Science, 23 April 1999, p. 568).

These shellfish were the first marine invertebrate added to the endangered species list — in the late 1990s.

Core sage - grouse states like Idaho and Nevada have scrambled to craft plans to increase populations of the bird so it won't be added to the threatened and endangered species list.

A proposed megaport and a sea turtle nesting beach collide within the group that maintains the endangered species list

U.S. species removed from the Endangered Species List: Brown pelican, 1985 American alligator, 1987 Arctic peregrine falcon, 1994 Gray whale, 1994 American peregrine falcon, 1999 Aleutian Canada goose, 2001

In May 2008, the Bush Administration, after multiple lawsuits, put the polar bear on the endangered species list and acknowledged that the survival of the species is jeopardized by climate change.

In 2015, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined an endangered species listing for greater sage grouse was not warranted in Wyoming or elsewhere.

Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt today proclaimed 29 species once on the brink of extinction — including the bald eagle, gray wolf, and peregrine falcon — healthy enough to be removed from the endangered species list.

The glamorous «feathers & fur» animals that the public supports being placed on the Endangered Species List are generally the top predators or higher herbivores.

«Right now, I'm working on the dry forests of Hawaii where 45 % of the trees are on the endangered species list,» says Gillespie.

One of the key and underlying issues is concern about endangered species: More than a third of species on the U.S. Endangered Species List live only in wetlands and almost half use them at some time during their lifecycles.

The legislation also includes provisions that would continue efforts to open a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada, prevent the Obama administration from moving ahead with new environmental rules aimed at strengthening protections for small streams and wetlands, and bar adding the sage grouse to the endangered species list.

A ban on adding the sage grouse, a grassland species in the western United States, to the endangered species list.

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin told a crowd recently that efforts to include the polar bear on the endangered species list are based on «these global warming studies that now we're seeing (is) a bunch of snake oil science.»

The same method might be used for the black - tailed prairie dog — removed from the endangered species list but still declining on the Great Plains and often infected by fleas with plague bacteria, Knutie says.

Last June the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed that peregrines be removed from the endangered species list.

The 48 - centimeter (19 - inch) tall black and white Galápagos penguins landed on the endangered species list in 2000 after the population plummeted to only a few hundred individuals and are now considered the rarest penguins in the world.

You report that bird species are hopping on and off the critically endangered species list due to changes in habitat...

Like thousands of organisms that live off imperiled plants and animals, the sucking louse is missing from many endangered species lists — and that, says evolutionary ecologist Rob Colwell of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, is an unfortunate oversight.

Hybrids are not classified as their own species, so there are no regulations to protect them — they can't be placed on the U.S. government's endangered species list.

In June 2007, the United States removed the bald eagle from its endangered species list, saying the number of nesting pairs in the lower 48 states had risen to 10,000 from 400 in 1963.

Even so, the federal government stands by plans to drop Yellowstone's bears from the endangered species list.

Conservationists are debating, for example, whether the western grey wolf should have been removed from the Endangered Species list because genetic studies suggest some of them are wolf - coyote hybrids.

On March 28, 2008, the northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf was taken off the federal endangered species list.

FWS is required to designate critical habitat when it puts an organism on the endangered species list, although it doesn't always do this unless sued by environmental organizations.

A survey of studies has determined that climate change has had a particularly dire effect on mammals and birds on the endangered species list.

(Sec. 116) Requires Interior to reissue two final rules removing recovered gray wolves in Wyoming and the Great Lakes from the endangered species list.

On Sept. 4, the IUCN announced it was moving the iconic giant panda off its endangered species list, downgrading it to «vulnerable.»

There are nearly 1,300 plants and animals on the endangered species list — more than 90 percent of them have active recovery plans.

On July 12, 2011, the Center for Biological Diversity struck a historic legal settlement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, requiring the agency to make initial or final decisions on whether to add hundreds of imperiled plants and animals to the endangered species list by 2018.

A week after that, it sued the administration again for delaying plans to put the rusty - patched bumblebee on the endangered species list.

The ultimate goal is removing the species from the endangered species list to join the American Alligator and Bald Eagle as a conservation success.

Despite significant progress in reestablishing populations of ferrets in the wild, recovery assessments continue to show that the end goal of establishing self - sustaining wild populations, and removing the ferret from the endangered species list, remains a moving target.