Sentences with phrase «first endangered species»

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

It is the first endangered species for which a test to identify carriers of a genetic disease has been established.

For instance, when we cloned one of the first endangered species, there were two of these what we call bantengs that were born, and one of the them was twice the normal size [and it] had to be euthanized.

Not exact matches

INDIANAPOLIS — Endangered Species Chocolate (ESC) announced today that its chocolate bar line has received certification by Fairtrade America and is now offering the first ever chocolate bars made in America from Fairtrade certified West African cocoa beans that can be fully traced from farm to chocolate bar.

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.

The US Endangered Species Act requires federal biologists to keep close tabs on pelican populations for the first five years after delisting.

It'll be the first mass oral vaccination program to target an endangered species in the wild.

«Our study is the first to provide empirical evidence that artificial insemination with long - stored spermatozoa is not only possible but also beneficial to the genetic diversity of an endangered species,» said David Wildt, lead author, senior scientist and head of the Center for Species Survival aspecies,» said David Wildt, lead author, senior scientist and head of the Center for Species Survival aSpecies Survival at SCBI.

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

The first comprehensive genetic study of humpback whale populations in the North Pacific Ocean has identified five distinct populations — at the same time a proposal to designate North Pacific humpbacks as a single «distinct population segment» is being considered under the Endangered Species Act.

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

In order to understand the origins of the Iberian Peninsula's most emblematic species and one of the world's most endangered felines according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (UICN), we must first go back in time.

Why do you see a person jumping from issue to issue, first passing President Bush's healthy forests legislation, now working with congressman Pombo on a bill to change Endangered Species Act?

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 Specispecies of such commercial value has come under the protection of the Endangered SpeciesSpecies Act.

The paper titled «First Circumpolar Assessment of Southern Hemisphere Humpback Whale Mitochondrial Genetic Variation at Multiple Scales and Implications for Management» now appears in the online version of Endangered Species Research.

In the first study, Lyons and her team used the 99 Lives consortium to identify a genetic mutation that causes blindness in the African black - footed cat, an endangered species often found in U.S. zoos.

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.

It is the first healthy, viable clone of an endangered species and the first successful birth from a cross-species nuclear transfer.

To counteract this trend, MacPhee and his colleagues formed the Committee on Recently Extinct Organisms in the late 1990s, devising criteria to determine extinction reliably — including rigorous taxonomic identification and a 50 - year waiting period before declaring something extinct, an idea first put forth by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.

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.

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.

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.

Born on 8 January 2001, Noah was the first successful birth of a cloned animal from an endangered species.

Mingzhen Lu, first Princeton author and a graduate student in Hedin's research group, said that if root traits do in fact determine a plant's ability to withstand a particular environment, these findings could be valuable in conserving endangered species or projecting how plants might adapt to climate change.

The Yellowstone bears were among the first animal populations protected by the Endangered Species Act, in 1975.

The first specimen was found in 1974 and the second in 1990, but over the years, the plant was wrongly assigned to three different Solanum species before a study led by University of Utah botanist Lynn Bohs identified it as an entirely new but likely endangered species.

First, I have to come clean: I am a rare and endangered species: a «moderate Republican.»

«The polar bear was the first species protected under the Endangered Species Act solely because of threats from global warming,» said Shaye Wolf, climate science director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmentalspecies protected under the Endangered Species Act solely because of threats from global warming,» said Shaye Wolf, climate science director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmentalSpecies Act solely because of threats from global warming,» said Shaye Wolf, climate science director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group.

Jeremy joined the Endangered Species Program of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in February 2008, one year after white - nose syndrome (WNS) was first discovered west of Albany, New York.

In order to ensure that the information you present to your students is current and correct, we travel first to the online domains of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service, the government agencies charged with administering the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

I began by following much of what the teachers before me had always done, including the annual first big research project on an endangered species.

-LSB-...] I highlighted an investment strategy I first read about in a Spring 1999 research report called Wall Street's Endangered Species by Daniel J. Donoghue, Michael R. Murphy and Mark Buckley, then at Piper Jaffray and now at -LSB-...]

-LSB-...] Performance of Darwin's darlings — via Greenbackd — Yesterday I highlighted an investment strategy I first read about in a Spring 1999 research report called Wall Street's Endangered Species by Daniel J. Donoghue, Michael R. Murphy and Mark Buckley, then at Piper Jaffray and now at Discovery Group, a firm founded by Donoghue and Murphy.

Yesterday I highlighted an investment strategy I first read about in a Spring 1999 research report called Wall Street's Endangered Species by Daniel J. Donoghue, Michael R. Murphy and Mark Buckley,...

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.

After decades of research, the first litter of puppies conceived through in vitro fertilisation (IVF) have been successfully born, a breakthrough that spells hope for endangered dog species and the prevention of genetic dog diseases.

The campaign, which kicks off the first week of May, seeks to enlist a new generation to do four simple things that can make a world of difference to billions of farm animals, millions of animals abandoned to U.S. shelters each year, animals in entertainment, and disappearing and endangered species.

The whole reason the piping plover — and so many other bird species — are endangered in the first place is human development and loss of habitat.

Through volunteering with Park Stewardship, Ron saw first - hand the need to balance recreational opportunity with the conservation of endangered species such as the San Francisco garter snake.

One of the first invertebrates to be protected under the Endangered Species Act, this quarter - sized butterfly is an important resident of area grasslands.

Zoos let you not only experience these pocket - size creatures acquainting themselves with the world for the very first time, but learn about diverse eco-systems, rare and endangered species, and how these critters interact in the wild.

In 1993, she became the first staff person for the Park Stewardship program and has spent many years pioneering ways to engage the community in restoration work, with an emphasis on protecting threatened and endangered species.

Thanks to a concentrated effort on behalf of the Belize government and non-profit wildlife organizations, the number of young hawksbill turtles in the area has risen since 2009 when in - water counting of the endangered species first began.

The worlds first suicide bombers, forced death marches, kidnapping foreign woman to use as sex - slaves; and now in the dawn of the new century the slaughter of a great and endangered species, the Humpback whale.

«There has been growing concern that switching land use to rubber cultivation can negatively impact the soil, water availability, biodiversity, and even people's livelihoods,» she says, «But this is the first review of the effects on biodiversity and endangered species, and to estimate the future scale of the problem in terms of land area.»

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 wspecies to be listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act as threatened with extinction primarily due to global wSpecies 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 200species 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 200species listed as threatened under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA) since 200Species Act (ESA) since 2006 [13].

For many buyers, the «beyond carbon benefits of these projects benefits such as job creation and endangered species protection are what piques their interest in carbon offsets in the first place.

For example, Dr. Paul Opler (the first invertebrate specialist for the Endangered Species Act) was included in an email discussing how to deal with «Steele», sent by Slandering Sou and Miesler to Cook at SkepticalScience, Climate Progress, and Dr. Singer (who hoist Sou by her own petard).