Sentences with phrase «endangered species list by»

Polar bear in the dock - The polar bear was put on the official endangered species list by the US government back in 2008, after a previous successful court action.

Ringed seals have been suggested for inclusion on the Endangered Species list by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

On July 12, 2011, the Center for Biological Diversity struck a historic legal settlement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, requiring the agency to make initial or final decisions on whether to add hundreds of imperiled plants and animals to the endangered species list by 2018.

Not exact matches

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 IIspecies 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 IISpecies of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) at the Appendix II level.

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.

Coastal martens were petitioned for listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act in 2010, but withdrawn for consideration by the fish and wildlife service in 2015.

Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act, by Joe Roman.

A study in Science found that species non-specialists proposed to add to the endangered list were more at risk than species put on the list by experts at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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.

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.

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].

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

Last year a study by the National Academy of Sciences reported that in the last three decades the Steller sea lion population dropped from several hundred thousand to about 30,000 — so few that they are now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

The species is listed as Endangered on the IUCN's Red List and on CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna) as an Appendix I species, a designation which prohibits all international commercial trade by member couspecies is listed as Endangered on the IUCN's Red List and on CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna) as an Appendix I species, a designation which prohibits all international commercial trade by member couSpecies of Wild Flora and Fauna) as an Appendix I species, a designation which prohibits all international commercial trade by member couspecies, a designation which prohibits all international commercial trade by member countries.

That has squeezed out the Quino checkerspot butterfly's habitat, and with the climate changes coming as a result of human greenhouse gas emissions, its listing as an endangered species by the U.S. government may not be enough to save the pretty little butterfly from extinction.

In May 2008, the Bush Administration, after multiple lawsuits, put the polar bear on the endangered species list and acknowledged that the survival of the species is jeopardized by climate change.

Both species are listed as «critically endangered» by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

This September, after years of mulling over the decline — and spurred forward by litigation — the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposed listing the bird as a threatened species under the Endangered Specispecies under the Endangered SpeciesSpecies Act.

But the same study shows that the iconic species» living space is becoming more fragmented by roads, and that the panda still has less habitat today than three decades ago, when it was first listed as endangered.

The red wolf was listed as an endangered species in 1973, initiating a captive breeding program by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Industry's success with the Data Quality Act is now being imitated by a few public - interest groups, including some confronting the Fish and Wildlife Service's failure to list species as endangered when the data argue otherwise.

Orchids make up 70 % of species listed by the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and some can sell on the black market for tens of thousands of pounds, thus providing the motivation for traders to bypass the rules aimed at preventing species from becoming especies listed by the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and some can sell on the black market for tens of thousands of pounds, thus providing the motivation for traders to bypass the rules aimed at preventing species from becoming eSpecies (CITES) and some can sell on the black market for tens of thousands of pounds, thus providing the motivation for traders to bypass the rules aimed at preventing species from becoming especies from becoming extinct.

The same method might be used for the black - tailed prairie dog — removed from the endangered species list but still declining on the Great Plains and often infected by fleas with plague bacteria, Knutie says.

Giraffe numbers have declined by as much as 40 percent since the 1980s in a «silent extinction» driven by illegal hunting and an expansion of farmland in Africa, the Red List of endangered species reported on Thursday.

The move by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the animal as threatened under the Endangered Species Act includes scenarios for establishing wolverines in their former range, with Colorado taking the lead; the male stranded in Colorado, M56, had chosen an excellent spot in the southern Rockies and was already fitted with a transmitter.

A recent study by the Environmental Defense Fund shows that of species on the first endangered list drawn up in 1967, those that are recovering received an average of almost four times as much funding as the ones that are declining.

Each database tracked the presence or absence of organisms either listed as threatened or endangered by state or federal authorities, perilously close to being listed, or species of concern to The Nature Conservancy, which maintains biodiversity databases nationwide.

The species is designated as «Critically Endangered» on the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species, and is protected in U.S. waters by the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protectispecies is designated as «Critically Endangered» on the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species, and is protected in U.S. waters by the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal ProtectiSpecies, and is protected in U.S. waters by the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal ProtectiSpecies Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Further, the findings of the new study confirm the unique nature of Arabian Sea humpback whales, which recently was listed as «Endangered» under the US Endangered Species Act by evaluating extinction risk of this discrete population.

Even so, the federal government stands by plans to drop Yellowstone's bears from the endangered species list.

The loggerhead sea turtle is listed as threatened (likely to become endangered, in danger of extinction, within the foreseeable future) under the U.S. Federal Endangered Species Act and internationally it is listed as endangered (facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural endangered, in danger of extinction, within the foreseeable future) under the U.S. Federal Endangered Species Act and internationally it is listed as endangered (facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Endangered Species Act and internationally it is listed as endangered (facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural endangered (facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

FWS is required to designate critical habitat when it puts an organism on the endangered species list, although it doesn't always do this unless sued by environmental organizations.

Today fewer than 30 adult stick insects remain on the Pyramid and the species is recognised as «Critically Endangered» by the IUCN Red List.

A comprehensive review (pdf) by the US Fish and Wildlife Service concluded that shrinking sea ice is the primary cause for the decline seen in these populations, and it recently proposed listing polar bears as threatened (pdf) under the Endangered Species Act.

After years of inaction and prompted by a 2011 decision by the Fish and Wildlife Service to list the bird for protection under the Endangered Species Act, the BLM initiated sage grouse protection planning.

This unprecedented five - year effort, led by the Department of Interior, resulted in land - use plans with new measures to conserve sage grouse and potentially prevent the need to list the species as endangered.

In addition, the monarch butterfly is under review by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for protection as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act, with a final listing decision expected in Junspecies under the federal Endangered Species Act, with a final listing decision expected in JunSpecies Act, with a final listing decision expected in June 2019.

By Chris Clarke, KCET With the recent declines in numbers of monarch butterflies leading to the popular insect becoming a candidate for listing as an endangered species, more and more gardeners are thinking about growing milkweed.

Globally, 1,223 species of birds, or about 12 percent of the total of 9,998 extant described bird species, were deemed endangered or threatened with extinction by IUCN's 2009 Red List.

By 1967, the Black - footed Ferret joined the U.S. Endangered Species List, where it has remained ever since.

In a sharply worded 111 - page ruling, U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell said the 2012 decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to take the wolves off the list and hand management responsibilities over to Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin was «arbitrary and capricious» and violated the Endangered Species Act.

A judge restored federal protections to gray wolves in the the western Great Lakes region on Friday, reversing an earlier decision by the federal government to remove the animals from the endangered species list.

Wild populations are considered vulnerable, and in 2014 the species was placed on the Endangered list by the IUCN.

WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Indian Harbour Beach, Florida has determined that feral animals within the City limits can create a nuisance disturbance, prey on common and rare species of native wildlife in Florida, including species listed as threatened or endangered by the state and federal governments, carry and spread diseases, destroy property, compete with native wildlife for food and shelter, as well as copious fecal deposits made by said feral animals; and,

[FN34] To make matters worse, many of the animals preyed upon by cats are federal and state listed threatened and endangered species.

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.

[2] The northwest Pacific population is also listed as endangered by the U.S. government's National Marine Fisheries Service under the U.S. Endangered Spendangered by the U.S. government's National Marine Fisheries Service under the U.S. Endangered SpEndangered Species Act.

His new fieldwork comes as the agency is in the final days of mulling whether to list the bears under the Endangered Species Act before a deadline of May 15 set by a federal judge in California.

It's gotten to the point where the United States Geological Survey has developed state - by - state lists of threatened and extinct stream gauges — somewhat akin to the «Red List» of endangered species maintained by conservation organizations.

Of these 19 species, the IUCN Red List classifies two as endangered and three as «near threatened»; trade in at least 10 is supposed to be restricted by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (species, the IUCN Red List classifies two as endangered and three as «near threatened»; trade in at least 10 is supposed to be restricted by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Specieendangered and three as «near threatened»; trade in at least 10 is supposed to be restricted by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered SpecieEndangered Species (Species (CITES).