Sentences with phrase «called critical habitat»
The department's proposal said that «at this time» the lands and waters most critical to the bears» protection, called critical habitat in the law, were «not determinable.»
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Jaguars, which once roamed much of the southern U.S. but are now endangered — if not extinct — here, were slated to get a new so - called critical habitat to encourage their repatriation.
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On 10 April, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) in Tucson, Arizona, joined three other organizations — the Humane Society of the United States, Defenders of Wildlife, and Whale and Dolphin Conservation — to file a federal lawsuit calling for the government to increase the amount of space designated as critical habitat for the whales under the US Endangered Species Act.
When bat habitats, called «hibernacula», are disturbed by noise, light or human contact, bats can use up critical amounts of energy, threatening their ability to survive the winter.