Sentences with phrase «endangered bowhead»

The Arctic provides vital habitat for polar bears, endangered bowhead whales, and more.

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An oil spill could devastate endangered species like polar bears and bowhead whales, destroy habitat for millions of migratory birds, and jeopardize the subsistence - based Inupiat culture.

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.

These waters are home to polar bears, walrus, bowhead whales and other endangered species.

A. Several whale populations are indisputably endangered, including western gray whales (eastern gray whales, which are the population of gray whales found on the Pacific coast of North America, are no longer considered endangered), eastern bowhead whales, North Atlantic and Pacific right whales, blue whales, and most humpback whales.

Southern right whale and western bowhead whale populations are depleted but appear to be recovering; this does not mean that they should no longer be considered endangered, but simply that they are doing much better than their cousins in terms of recovery.