Sentences with phrase «endangered species list because»

The Bush Administration yesterday kicked off a process to determine whether polar bears should be added to the United States endangered species list because their habitat is melting.

Conservationists are debating, for example, whether the western grey wolf should have been removed from the Endangered Species list because genetic studies suggest some of them are wolf - coyote hybrids.

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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 polspecies — 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 polSpecies 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 polspecies also warrant some level of protection under the law because of threats from warming water, ocean acidification and pollution.

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.

Environmental groups have sought to force the federal government to restrict carbon dioxide emissions using the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act (because of threats to polar bears from global warming) and other federal laws, and now they are poised to add the Clean Water Act to the list.

Three years after environmental groups sued to force the Interior Department to consider protecting polar bears under the Endangered Species Act, the Bush administration today listed the species as threatened — on track to be endangered by midcentury because of shrinking summer sea ice in a warmiEndangered Species Act, the Bush administration today listed the species as threatened — on track to be endangered by midcentury because of shrinking summer sea ice in a warming Species Act, the Bush administration today listed the species as threatened — on track to be endangered by midcentury because of shrinking summer sea ice in a warming species as threatened — on track to be endangered by midcentury because of shrinking summer sea ice in a warmiendangered by midcentury because of shrinking summer sea ice in a warming Arctic.

In the future, we may also identify specific regulations for the conservation of these threatened species, because ESA prohibitions against «take» are not automatically applied as they are for species listed as endangered.

The East Oxford Alliance citizen's group filed an urgent request last week with Environment Minister Glen Murray to stop the Gunn's Hill Wind Farm because the project will kill little brown bats, a species whose numbers are plunging across North America and is now on Ontario's and Canada's endangered lists.

For example, the Center recently petitioned for listing of the polar bear (link to polar bear page) under the Endangered Species Act, in part because of the detrimental effects of global warming on habitat for this sSpecies Act, in part because of the detrimental effects of global warming on habitat for this speciesspecies.

Even the U.S. Department of the Interior has now proposed that polar bears be listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act because polar sea ice is melting — an extraordinary admission for an administration philosophically aligned with the skeptics.