Sentences with phrase «endangered list of»

These insults have whittled their population down 90 percent of its level from 45 years ago and put the species on the critically endangered list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Participants will also record information on sharks, rays, turtles and cetaceans spotted during their stay and also periodically other species identified on the endangered lists of Fiji to support protection efforts by the Coral Reef Allowance and Fiji Fisheries.

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WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday released a list of toxic chemicals that will be the first reviewed under a recently enacted law that gives regulators increased authority to ban substances shown to endanger human health.

The Bald Eagle is a wild animal that just came off of the endangered species list a little less than 5 years ago.

When you purchase any of the zesty products listed there, the manufacturers donate a portion of the proceeds to various charities and nonprofits including breast cancer research, protection of endangered species, church youth groups & missions, soup kitchens & families in need, animal shelters and rescue groups.

Play is so essential to children's health and well - being — and so endangered — that the United Nations lists it as a guaranteed right in its Convention on the Rights of the Child.

We protect about 40 % of the piping plovers nesting in the state and about 50 % of the least terns — both of these species are listed under the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act.

The species is one of the world's largest freshwater fishes, capable of growing to more than 10 feet and upwards of 400 pounds, and is listed as protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) at the Appendix II level.

The African penguin is on the Association of Zoos and Aquarium's top 10 list of endangered animals in need of immediate and intensive conservation measures.

The Kane County Forest Preserve District was awarded $ 750,000 to acquire a 67 - acre parcel adjacent to Blackberry Maples Forest Preserve in southern Kane County, home to several species of birds and reptiles on the state's endangered list.

Such behavior includes, but is not limited to, attempting to enter the building with prohibited items listed above; smoking; offensive or disorderly conduct; throwing any object; entering or attempting to enter pools or exhibits; failure to follow the instructions of aquarium personnel; actions that might harm or endanger others; and any other conduct that is deemed inappropriate in a public setting.

The Staten Island Democrat was once believed to be somewhere near the top of the endangered Democrat list for the 2010 cycle here in New York — a status due in part to his refusal to switch his «no» vote on health care reform and subsequent abandonment by the Working Families Party and SEIU 1199.

The $ 20.7 million project preserves the historic Eastman Dental Dispensary, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and on the Landmark Society of Western New York's 2013 «Five to Revive» list of most important and endangered historic structures to revitalize.

The pond is a documented breeding area for the eastern tiger salamander, one of the largest terrestrial salamanders in the United States and a species on the state's endangered list.

Sen. Neil Breslin is not on the Democrats» endangered members list heading into the Sept. 14 primary, but that's not for lack of effort by his opponent Luke Martland.

The lands also will be managed for improved wildlife habitat for seven species of national importance, like the New England cottontail, and four hawk species listed by the New York State Endangered Species Act — Cooper's hawk, red - shouldered hawk, broad - winged hawk and northern goshawk.

Joining Nulty and the County of Rockland Tuesday evening, the Orangetown Town Board publicly criticized the gun map of the Rockland County Journal - News, saying the newspaper's recent publishing of a map listing the names and addresses of all gun permit holders endangers the lives and safety of all police, correction, undercover and investigative officers, from local town and village departments to federal security agencies.

The study, published today in the online journal PeerJ, will be available to federal and state wildlife agencies for their consideration to determine whether distinct geographic population segments of the coastal marten warrant state or federal listing as threatened or endangered, said Katie Moriarty, a certified wildlife biologist and lead co-author on the study.

Ice - road truckers may join the list of endangered species as climate change worsens in the Arctic

The hispid hare (Caprolagus hispidus) is in the list of critically endangered small mammals.

The variation between eastern diamondback populations could provide crucial information to authorities managing the conservation of this species, which is in decline and under consideration for listing as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Two Atlantic Ocean coral species — elkhorn and staghorn — are listed as «threatened» under the Endangered Species Act, and NOAA is considering whether an additional 82 coral species also warrant some level of protection under the law because of threats from warming water, ocean acidification and pollution.

The team assessed 61 species of fish according to the criteria used by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Gland, Switzerland, to produce its Red List of endangered species.

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In the meantime, I hope my thesis work will address some equally interesting questions: how migration of barren - ground caribou impacts wolf movement, whether there is such a thing as the arctic wolf (currently listed «data deficient» by the Committee for the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada), whether arctic foxes migrate or just disperse, and how lemming cycles affect that decision.

Led by scientists from ZSL (Zoological Society of London) and published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, the study highlights how African wild dogs — already classified as Endangered by the IUCN Red List — raise fewer pups at high temperatures.

On April 19 of this year, five major wildlife protection groups petitioned the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to list the giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) as an endangered species.

A few years later in the United States, the federal government began keeping an official list of species in danger of extinction — what we call endangered species — and species likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future — threatened species.

The courtroom battle had raged since the Bush administration had announced in January 2009 its decision to take gray wolves — 66 of which were reintroduced to the region in 1995 after their forebears were wiped out by hunters and ranchers a century earlier — off of the Endangered Species List.

The landmark Endangered Species Act turned 29 years old in October, yet the list of endangered species grows eEndangered Species Act turned 29 years old in October, yet the list of endangered species grows eendangered species grows every year.

The species was on the brink of extinction late in the 20th century but has largely recovered and now has a stable population and is in the process of being removed from the U.S. federal government's list of endangered species.

Off the List Thanks to repopulation efforts during the past few decades, the gray wolf (Canis lupus) now thrives in the U.S., and since 2003 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been trying to move the top predator off the endangered species list — a plan opposed by groups that believe the wolves are susceptible to being overhunted [see «Out of the Woods»; SciAm, April 20List Thanks to repopulation efforts during the past few decades, the gray wolf (Canis lupus) now thrives in the U.S., and since 2003 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been trying to move the top predator off the endangered species list — a plan opposed by groups that believe the wolves are susceptible to being overhunted [see «Out of the Woods»; SciAm, April 20list — a plan opposed by groups that believe the wolves are susceptible to being overhunted [see «Out of the Woods»; SciAm, April 2003].

The Interior Department lists the polar bear as a «threatened» species — one at risk of becoming endangered — due to dangerous declines in their sea ice habitat

Experts say the finding, reported in this month's issue of Conservation Biology, points up the urgent need to guard against infectious diseases when nursing species off the endangered list.

Nearly a quarter of cetacean species are considered threatened, and of those more than 10 percent (nine species) are listed by the IUCN as «Endangered» or «Critically Endangered» — the highest categories of threat

Thanks to a combination of factors and the hard work of bird lovers and scientists, peregrine falcons are once again common across the U.S., graduating off the national endangered species list as of 1999.

A subspecies of the widespread North American pronghorn, it was first listed as endangered in 1967.

EBay has already banned the sale of bullets, guns and pornography on its site and plans to crack down on endangered animal sales with the help of software filters that flag words such as «ivory» and prevent sellers from posting listings of illegal items, Cartwright said.

Palaeolithic tools dating to 20,000 BC and ancient mathematics and astronomy manuscripts are on the new «red list» of endangered objects

The agency today published its decision to list beluga sturgeon as «threatened» under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), pulling short of the full import ban required under an «endangered»Endangered Species Act (ESA), pulling short of the full import ban required under an «endangered»endangered» listing.

Of the roughly 1000 species listed in the United States as endangered, only 13 — including the American peregrine falcon and the American alligator — have rebounded enough to warrant removal from the list.

In the entire history of the Endangered Species Act, there has been no similar instance of a split listing, Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe said in a press briefing June 11.

A decision in June by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to list captive chimpanzees as endangered added another hurdle by requiring a permit to use any of the 700 research chimpanzees in the country in invasive research.

The organization found that eBay sites in six countries were selling endangered wildlife products, including elephant ivory and hides, turtle shells, and skins from leopards, cheetahs, ocelots, lizards and crocodiles; two thirds of all endangered species products listed on eBay had U.S. sellers.

The groups» scientists also surveyed systematists to fill out the species lists and drew on expert advice to create a new list of endangered species that includes species that haven't wound through the red tape to gain federal endangered status.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the whorled sunflower, Short's bladderpod and fleshy - fruit gladecress for protection under the Endangered Species Act because populations of the three are dwindling to critical levels.

Both those for and against the project note that the outcome of the jaguar habitat could have implications for future interpretation of the U.S. Endangered Species Act, which currently requires the FWS to establish critical habitat areas for species on the list.

It was listed as critically endangered in 1994 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

The worldwide arbiter — The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)-- maintains a Red List of endangered species that has become the accepted standard.

Since the animals were first listed as endangered, the human population of Florida has more than tripled, and efforts to help the Florida's state animal recover have had limited success