Sentences with phrase «endangered species like»

Only 6 hours, and yet ecosystems are now mutilated for generations and endangered species like sea turtles risk complete extinction.

The 90,000 acres of native mesquite, sabal palm, Texas ebony and prickly pear provide a refuge for endangered species like the ocelot and jaguarondi, which would be especially hard - hit by the construction of the fence.

In fact, some of their shirts feature endangered species like the lynx, and the pointy - eared squirrel, while others are adorned by a landscape in the province of Granada where you can see olive groves and modern windmills.

The Sundarbans, which spans the border of India and Bangladesh, is home to endangered species like the Bengal tiger and Irrawaddy dolphin, and provides a home and livelihoods for upwards of 6 million people.

Messages demanding action from tens of thousands of people just like you have helped the Center influence decision makers, stop destructive practices that destroy our wild lands, and win protections for endangered species like the orca and northern goshawk.

The designation could increase the area of forest conserved within oil palm plantations provided it has high conservation significance, such as serving as habitat for endangered species like orangutans, Sumatran tigers, and rhinos.

In California, the pollution and development associated with fracking threaten endangered species like the California condor, San Joaquin kit fox and blunt - nosed leopard lizard.

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.

Maybe all plastics will be biodegradable — ending the massive pressure on our landfills and the death of ecosystems and endangered species like the Leatherback sea turtle.

Belize is home to beautiful birds of all sizes and types, including tiny hummingbirds, colorful toucans and macaws, the majestic blue - crowned motmot, and rare and endangered species like the ocellated turkey and the yellow - headed parrot.

Due to the intact connectivity of the extensive seagrass beds, desnse mangrove forests, and robust coral reefs, the remoteness of the area, and the history of protection from coastal development, the Gardens of the Queen represents a «baseline» for a nearly pristine Caribbean marine ecosystem; an ecosystem that includes healthy populations of apex predators like sharks and groupers, important grazers like Rainbow parrotfish and long - spine sea urchins, and recovering endangered species like elkhorn coral and hawksbill sea turtles.

The river Sierpe and its countless side arms form the largest mangrove area in central America, many endangered species like the almost extinct Harpy Eagle (Águila Harpía) live here.

There people can catch glimpses of the sadly endangered species like the one - horned rhinoceros, Indian bison, sloth bears, Bengali tiger and many more.

Measuring more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from north to south, the MRS is home to hundreds of fish species, endangered sea turtles, avian species, sharks, and a number of endangered species like the brown Pelican.

There are over 125 animals native to Belize at the zoo, including endangered species like the Jaguar, Tapirs, Black Howler Monkeys and many more.

NOAA officials said they are still studying whether the collisions significantly threaten West Coast populations of endangered species like the blue whale.

With more than 700 square miles of wetland and saw grass prairies, Everglades National Park is a magnificent and important habitat for Florida wildlife, including endangered species like the manatee, American crocodile and Florida panther.

Working with park scientists to protect endangered species like the mission blue butterfly and peregrine falcon.

Destination Wildlife also noted that the protected sandy beaches of the Silk Cayes serve as nesting sites for endangered species like the hawksbill turtle.

Largely undisturbed by humans, this area offers the best chance of spotting endangered species like jaguars and the Baird's tapir.

The Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Saturday is also considered bird watcher's paradise, and is home to some endangered species like the Scarlet Macaw, Keel Billed Toucan, Emerald Toucanet, and the King Vulture.The preserve is also home to an abundance of amphibians and reptiles, including the Red - Eyed Tree Frog.

Or come face - to - face with Australia's native wildlife on a private tour of the Taronga Zoo and learn about conservation efforts to protect endangered species like the koala and the Tasmanian devil.

He's Davis Okoye, a former special - ops soldier turned primatologist, who is eager to open a can of whoop - ass on poachers foolish enough to threaten endangered species like George, the albino gorilla he's sheltering at a San Diego wildlife sanctuary.

The documentary also tackles another big animal killer, the international exotic wildlife trade, through which endangered species like sharks and Manta rays are being butchered and then sold as food or as bogus medical remedies.

That's essentially saying that a person shouldn't worry about endangered species like the snow leopard because its a person not a snow leopard.

Several studies have found traditional Chinese herbal supplements to be tainted will all sorts of things, including actual pharmaceutical drugs, heavy metals and even DNA from endangered species like the snow leopard.

Not exact matches

The country is renowned for its diversity of tropical plants and wildlife, like three - toed sloths, endangered white - faced capuchin monkeys and hundreds of different bird species.

LIKE silver service, Perth's French cuisine restaurants are an endangered species that could be counted on one hand.

The most passionate argument in the book, in a chapter on declining Jewish population, pleads that, after the Holocaust, Jews are an endangered species, deserving protection and enhancement for the sake of diversity, like the bald eagle: «You have friends who work to rescue endangered animal and plant species, so you know why this matters.»

Many brands of dark chocolate bars are vegan, such as Endangered Species; for a milder milk chocolate alternative, companies like Zazubean make chocolate bars out of coconut milk!

If his breed seems like an endangered species, that may reflect the nature of the modern game.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- With bike lanes and pedestrian plazas popping up everywhere, drivers feel like an endangered species in New York City.

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 gspecies 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 gspecies listed by the New York State Endangered Species Act — Cooper's hawk, red - shouldered hawk, broad - winged hawk and northern gSpecies Act — Cooper's hawk, red - shouldered hawk, broad - winged hawk and northern goshawk.

He employs programming to analyze data from research cruises, 6 - foot - long autonomous robotic gliders shaped like torpedoes that scout out endangered mammals, and buoys that «listen» to whales and identify the species.

You can't really talk about a species if you can't separate it from others like it, or tell if a species is endangered, if you can't tell what the species is.»

«We welcome the administration's decision because we, like Secretary Ken Salazar, recognize that the Endangered Species Act is not the proper mechanism for controlling our nation's carbon emissions,» American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard said.

Core sage - grouse states like Idaho and Nevada have scrambled to craft plans to increase populations of the bird so it won't be added to the threatened and endangered species list.

Harnessing an invasive fish species sounded like a promising conservation tool to help reverse the destruction wreaked by zebra mussels on endangered native mollusks in the Great Lakes — except that it won't work, says a University of Guelph ecologist.

It also can aid in conservation genetics efforts by helping to trace paternity and to track how males move within and between populations in endangered species, like gorillas.

Now, Ruegg and colleagues would like to expand the analysis to other migratory birds, including endangered species, if they can get funding.

In the 4FRI treatment zone, they provide habitat for species like the endangered Mexican spotted owl, mule deer and other animals that depend on a thick canopy to survive.

Two well - accepted species of wolf - like canid animals inhabit North America: the gray wolf — currently listed as endangered — and the widespread coyote.

Of the 56 known species, many live in remote habitats like marshlands and rain forests, and some are endangered.

Steve: The first part of the book, before you get to the case - by - case analysis of the threatened and endangered birds, the first part of the book is just like a traditional book, you can sit there and read it and it has various sections and one of them talks about birds, as you know, literally canaries in coal mines and the rest of the bird species out there as our canaries in the ecological coal mine that we are in.

Like thousands of organisms that live off imperiled plants and animals, the sucking louse is missing from many endangered species lists — and that, says evolutionary ecologist Rob Colwell of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, is an unfortunate oversight.

Bodies are buried in a forest and planted over with endangered native species like crested coralroot orchids.

«We had to learn how to feed this species, we had to learn about its reproductive physiology, and thank goodness we started as early as we did because now it looks like [captive breeding] is a serious need for the species,» says Terri Roth, director of the zoo's Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife, which works closely with Indonesia's Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Way Kambas National Park.

When FWS first proposed critical habitat for the endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrow, based on his 2 decades of research on the species, Pimm liked the map.

Relevant calls, like the subtle grunt of the critically endangered coquí llanero (Eleutherodactylus juanariveroi, pictured), are singled out using a computer algorithm, which scientists can train to identify any species they choose.

Novel cell technologies could bring endangered animals back from the brink — and maybe even revive long gone species like the passenger pigeon