Sentences with phrase «endangered crane»

Fewer than 500 whooping cranes live in the wild in the United States, making them the world's most endangered crane species, said Tom MacKenzie a spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday.

«Researcher aims to save endangered cranes.»

In the Phobjikha Valley, learn about the endangered cranes that winter here at the Black - necked Crane Information Center.

A group of sculptures cast from endangered cranes» legs speak further of his meditations on boundaries, whether geological, physical or socially constructed.

Not exact matches

It's not just humans who learn from their elders — it turns out the endangered whooping crane can pass wisdom down the generations as well.

It turns out that the endangered whooping crane passes crucial wisdom down the generations.

Wetlands are widely valued as natural pollution filters and as habitat for endangered species such as the Yuma clapper rail, whooping crane and least tern.

Every year, North America's critically endangered Whooping Cranes travel back and forth along a 4,000 - kilometer corridor linking their nesting grounds in Canada and their winter home in Texas.

Whooping cranes are protected by two federal laws: the Endangered Species Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

They winter in the DMZ alongside the endangered white - naped cranes, revered in Asia as sacred portents of peace.

Stuart Pimm, a conservation ecologist at Duke University, points out that recovery programs for critically endangered species such as the condor and whooping crane are valuable testing grounds.

Less than 20 of the enormous North American whooping crane were alive in 1940, and the bird was declared endangered in 1967.

In 2010, the Center for Biological Diversity completed a 1,145 - page, peer - reviewed petition to protect 404 Southeast aquatic species under the Endangered Species Act, including the Florida sandhill crane; MacGillivray's seaside sparrow; Alabama map turtle; hellbender salamander; Black warrior waterdog; rabbitsfoot, sheepnose and spectaclecase mussels; Cape Sable orchid; and Eastern black rail.

Bates and his son Richard are at the helm of Fordoun, and besides being excellent hosts and astute businessmen; have a keen interest in preserving the environment having donated part of their land to serve as a breeding habitat for the endangered wattled crane and oribi antelope.

Known formally as the Southern KwaZulu Natal Birding Route its list reads like a who's who of the endangered and rare bird sightings, boasting all three of the country's crane species as well as the chance of sighting a crowned eagle in the oNgoye Forest, the globally threatened blue swallow, and the endangered Cape parrot in the Creighton Valley's mist belt forests and grasslands.

Other crane species that can be seen include the endangered crowned crane.

DRWN (Carunculatus) features models of endangered African crane legs cast in graphite and resin.

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Tragically, these are the sixth and seventh shooting deaths of reintroduced endangered U.S. whooping cranes in 2011.

There is no hint that the Interior Department will cease using the Endangered Species Act and other laws to shut down oil and gas drilling while ignoring the growing slaughter of eagles and whooping cranes by wind turbines.

An analysis by the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) shows that more than 30,000 turbines overlap with federally protected bird habitat, including 24,000 in the migratory corridor of the whooping crane and 3,000 in breeding grounds of the endangered Greater Sage - Grouse.

, the elephants, orangutans, Whooping Cranes, California Condors, black footed ferrets and so many other endangered animals will thank us.

They plan on installing almost 800 IWT in this area I live in which is in large part unspoiled habitat for Peregrines, Golden Eagles, Bald Eagles, Sand Hill Cranes as well as various species of endangered and threatened plants and reptiles.

One only has to look at the courageous examples out there — the man who single - handedly saved a species of snail, or the man that courted a rare whooping crane for three years in an effort to get her to lay eggs — to see that sometimes, one person can make a huge difference in ensuring the survival of an endangered species.

East African Crowned cranes, a subspecies of the Grey Crowned cranes, are endangered due to habitat loss and degradation from human activities including due pesticide use, overgrazing by livestock, drainage of their wetland breeding areas and drought.

OHS charges against Millennium Crane revolve around the proper maintenance, operation and use of a crane, and providing instructions to employees about operating equipment in a manner that might endanger the operator or another individual, including failing to ensure the crane operator was properly licensed.