Sentences with phrase «increase critical habitat»

The Government of Nepal announced today an expansion of Bardia National Park in the Terai Arc Landscape by 900 sq km, which will increase critical habitat for tigers.

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The size of the preserved habitat is critical because of the ecological principle that increasing habitat size increases the chance of survival.

On 10 April, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) in Tucson, Arizona, joined three other organizations — the Humane Society of the United States, Defenders of Wildlife, and Whale and Dolphin Conservation — to file a federal lawsuit calling for the government to increase the amount of space designated as critical habitat for the whales under the US Endangered Species Act.

Wolf Education Project — Julian To increase public awareness and understanding as to the true nature of wolves and the critical role they play in maintaining ecological balance in their natural habitat.

The immediate negative effects of palm oil plantations are clear: loss of critical land and water resources for forest - dependent communities; increased conflicts between customary land owners and palm oil companies; and mass deforestation resulting in habitat loss for some of the world's most engendered species.

Even more of an increase would significantly impact sea ports, airports and even threaten critical wildlife habitats.

Predictions concerning the consequences of the oceanic uptake of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) have been primarily occupied with the effects of ocean acidification on calcifying organisms, particularly those critical to the formation of habitats (e.g. coral reefs) or their maintenance (e.g. grazing echinoderms).

These rates are expected to increase over the coming century, imperiling the survival of 7,000 acres of freshwater tidal wetlands that protect riverfront communities and critical infrastructure from flooding and provide habitat for species on which commercial fisheries along the entire Atlantic coast depend.

If the Kinder Morgan pipeline were to go ahead without addressing impacts to marine species, including increased tanker noise, the Southern Resident killer whale's population's survival and recovery would be jeopardized and their critical habitat would be threatened.

Kinder Morgan's proposal to twin its existing Trans Mountain Pipeline would increase the amount of oil transported from Edmonton to Burnaby's Westbridge Terminal from 300,000 barrels per day to 890,000 barrels per day, and increase tanker traffic through part of the Southern Resident killer whales» critical habitat in the Salish Sea by nearly seven times, from 60 tankers per year to over 420.

The result will be more designation of state, local and private land as critical habitat, and increased regulatory burdens and costs on land activities.

Taken together, the rules increase the likelihood that the Services will make adverse modification findings and could make it more likely that the Services will designate critical habitat and do so across larger areas of land than in the past, impacting landowners and project proponents alike.