Sentences with phrase «designated as species»

It also provides homes for many plants and animals and contains 63 wildlife species designated as species of greatest conservation need.

It is designated as a species of special concern by the state of California.

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While we may designate natural selection of adaptive species as the efficient cause of biological evolution, its final cause may now be defined as the mutual preservation of all biological species on earth.

The parcel is designated by the state in its entirety as BioMap2 Core Habitat and Priority Habitat for Rare and Endangered Species.

Since late February, researchers from the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and Lincoln Park Zoo have been monitoring levels of cortisol (known as the stress hormone) in three species that have been reintroduced or restored by the forest preserve: wood frogs (designated as «in great need of conservation» in Illinois); spotted salamanders, a rare species for northeastern Illinois; and spring peepers, a frog species whose local populations are in decline.

Nearly all of this property was designated a priority habitat of state - listed rare species, which is why Mass Audubon collaborated with public and private conservation organizations, as well as private landowners, to protect and manage this sanctuary.

Twelve different species have been designated as «priority species» by Chicago Wilderness, a regional conservation alliance, and the Nature Museum is proud to be one of the organizations developing strategies to protect these species.

The Regal Fritillary was recently designated a priority species by the Chicago Wilderness Council with the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum as the lead partner to coordinate regional efforts to conserve this species.

The Leakey team later designated the remains as a new species that they called Homo habilis, meaning the handy man.

In 2012, research by FFI and partners led to the species being formally designated as critically endangered due to its small population size and threats from hunting and habitat loss.

The first comprehensive genetic study of humpback whale populations in the North Pacific Ocean has identified five distinct populations — at the same time a proposal to designate North Pacific humpbacks as a single «distinct population segment» is being considered under the Endangered Species Act.

«In Washington, we have many species that are either listed under the Endangered Species Act or designated as overfished,» hspecies that are either listed under the Endangered Species Act or designated as overfished,» hSpecies Act or designated as overfished,» he says.

As a systematic biologist, he studies the evolutionary histories of reptiles, and designates species, which explains a door we passed marked «Alcohol Room.»

The team is continuing its work on the ecology of the new species and is urging the government to designate its habitat as a «protected area.»

The species is designated as «Critically Endangered» on the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species, and is protected in U.S. waters by the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protectispecies is designated as «Critically Endangered» on the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species, and is protected in U.S. waters by the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal ProtectiSpecies, and is protected in U.S. waters by the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal ProtectiSpecies Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

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.

Of those species, the list designates 108 as at risk for extinction.

The manufacturer's name, brand, and product, as well as what species the food is designated for, the net weight of the product, and a pet nutrition statement indicating if the food is for a juvenile, adult, etc..

Since its inception in 1973, the U.S. Endangered Species Act has pitted environmentalists against private property owners, whose lands often provide crucial habitat for species designated as threatened or endaSpecies Act has pitted environmentalists against private property owners, whose lands often provide crucial habitat for species designated as threatened or endaspecies designated as threatened or endangered.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 — The Interior Department proposed Wednesday to designate polar bears as a threatened species, saying that the accelerating loss of the Arctic ice that is the bears» hunting platform has led biologists to believe that bear populations will decline, perhaps sharply, in the coming decades.

The Interior Department proposed designating polar bears as a threatened species.

«Under the proposed development scenario, the ecosystems of the overall site are so fragmented as to virtually ensure the extinction of all the extant populations of amphibians and reptiles on that site designated by the state as species of special concern,» stated Dr. Klemens.

Namibia's Etosha National Park, designated as a game reserve in 1907, is one of Africa's major wildlife sanctuaries.2 It centers around a huge, parched depression of silver - white minerals — the Great White Place or Place of Dry Water for which the park is named.3 This ancient, evaporated lake deposit of salt minerals fills with water only after heavy rains.4 The park harbors more than 100 types of mammals, including rare and endangered species such as the black rhinoceros, black - faced impala, tssesebe, and gemsbok.2 Etosha is also home to more than 300 species of birds and more than 100 species of reptiles.4

Unfortunately, some organizations like the Center for Biological Diversity have weaponized the ESA in order to manipulate the debate on energy policy and climate change by petitioning the courts to designate perfectly robust species as endangered or threatened from future climate change.

Other problems with the LBWEG as perceived by HMANA include its failure to require that developers of industrial wind energy projects avoid known bird migration pathways and daily movement flyways, avoid features of the landscape known to attract raptors (such as ridge lines and coastlines), avoid areas formally designated as Important Bird Areas and avoid documented locations of any species protected under the federal Endangered Specispecies protected under the federal Endangered SpeciesSpecies Act.

The Beaufort's coastline along the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, meanwhile, is designated as critical habitat for that threatened species and is also a migration route for bowhead whales.

Does the Endangered Species Act authorize the federal government to designate as critical habitat private land that is unsuitable as habitat and has no connection with a protected sSpecies Act authorize the federal government to designate as critical habitat private land that is unsuitable as habitat and has no connection with a protected speciesspecies?