Sentences with phrase «designated critical habitat»

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

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.

Intensify conservation efforts in the large landscapes required for snow leopard survival by identifying and designating critical habitats of key snow leopard populations as no - go areas for destructive land uses, maintaining their integrity and connectivity through natural corridors, and strengthening their protection on the ground.

U.S. District Court judge rules in favor of more habitat protections for jaguars Just this month, U.S. District Judge John Roll ruled that a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision not to designate critical habitat for the jaguar and develop a recovery plan for the endangered animal was based on incorrect criteria.

Proposed changes to the role and timing of economic impact analyses during the process of designating critical habitat for an endangered...

This rule provides the FWS with more authority to designate critical habitat and is not required to incorporate an economic impact analysis into the decision - making process.

2012, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service published a proposed rule to enact changes to the process for designating critical habitats for endangered species.

Proposed changes to the role and timing of economic impact analyses during the process of designating critical habitat for an endangered species may have unintended economic impacts on adjacent communities.

Taken together, the rules increase the likelihood that the Services will make adverse modification findings and could make it more likely that the Services will designate critical habitat and do so across larger areas of land than in the past, impacting landowners and project proponents alike.

Not exact matches

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.

The federal government has spent more than two decades trying to reverse the decline of the shorebirds on the West Coast with scientific studies, elaborate recovery plans and more than 140 miles of coastline designated as «critical habitat.»

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) took an important step toward protecting critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act for the Cook Inlet beluga whale in Alaska by proposing to designate more than 3,000 square miles of the threatened whale's habitat for protection.

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 species?

The Endangered Species Act directs the Services, at the time they list a threatened or endangered species, to designate «any habitat of such species which is then considered to be critical habitat» where prudent and determinable, and based on the best scientific data available.