Sentences with phrase «first endangered list»

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.

Not exact matches

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 rusty patched bumblebee, Bombus affinis, recently became the first U.S. bumblebee species to be placed on the endangered species list, but a Kansas State University entomologist says bumblebee endangerment is nothing to be bugged about.

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

Oil companies want the American burying beetle to be the first recovered insect taken off the U.S. endangered species list.

These shellfish were the first marine invertebrate added to the endangered species list — in the late 1990s.

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

If the listing is finalised next year, it will be the first time a species of such commercial value has come under the protection of the Endangered Species 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.

Many public agencies and nonprofit groups have worked together to try to bring back the panther — Florida's state animal — since it was first listed as endangered by the federal government back in 1967.

Since the animals were first listed as endangered, the human population of Florida has more than tripled, meaning that rescue efforts are swimming against the tide.

In the first follow - up, Endangered species update: The extinct, the survivors, and the new watch list -LRB-.

In the first follow - up, Endangered species update: The extinct, the survivors, and the new watch list, from Summer 2000, Murphy and Buckley (Donoghue is not listed on the 2000 paper as an author) tested their original thesis and provided the «Darwin's Darlings Class of 2000,» which was a list of what they viewed as «the most undervalued, yet profitable and growing small cap public companies» in 2000.

[20] Closed in 1957, in a long decline it was first a drab 1960s office building for the Santa Fe, and then was empty when the National Trust for Historic Preservation placed the hotel on its annual «Most Endangered» list.

It's not the last action the government will take in its efforts to preserve the integrity of the reef; it's first in a three - prong effort to get the Belize reef off the list of endangered World Heritage sites.

Polar bears were actually the first vertebrate species to be listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act as threatened with extinction primarily due to global warming.

Several species and sites were reported to bleach for the first time, including: the first known bleaching at Saba; the first documented mass bleaching of the Flower Garden Banks, including at least partial bleaching of all Millepora alcicornis and Montastraea cavernosa colonies; and the first reported mass bleaching of Acropora palmata in Virgin Islands National Park (VINP), a species listed as threatened under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA) since 2006 [13].

Read more about tigers: 13 Countries Meet to Save Endangered Tigers Fading Tiger, Climate Dragon Tiger Tops WWF's List of Ten Critically Endangered Species Shock: Ultra Rare Tiger Dismembered at Zoo and Sold on Chinese Black Market First - Time Footage of Super Rare Sumatran Tiger & Cubs Released (Video) From the Forums: Will China Save the Tigers?

More on Endangered Tigers Tiger Tops WWF's List of Ten Critically Endangered Species Shock: Ultra Rare Tiger Dismembered at Zoo and Sold First - Time Footage of Super Rare Sumatran Tiger & Cubs Released

• Won the first Endangered Species Act listing for global warming - threatened species — the staghorn and elkhorn corals found off the Florida coast.

The first comprehensive assessment of tuna and billfish has put 5 of 8 tuna species on the Red List for threatened or endangered animals — and the IUCN is warning that Bluefin tuna are particularly vulnerable to vanishing, without the closure of fisheries.

By Jamie MacMaster My suspicions were first aroused in the spring of ’07 when an organization calling itself SOS (Save Ontario's Species) ran Ontario - wide radio ads hailing the McGuinty government's new and improved Endangered Species Act — yet another law, in a long list of legislation, that empowers the government to acquire private land without enduring the inconvenience of paying for it.