Sentences with phrase «other critical habitat»

And that, says FWS Arizona Ecological Services Office field supervisor Steve Spangle, is «larger than any other critical habitat that I'm aware of.»

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Bird Friendly certified organic coffees grow under biodiverse shade that provides critical habitat for migratory songbirds and other wildlife, sequesters carbon and fights climate change.

Naming Long Island Sound and the Peconic Estuary as one of eight national critical designation areas would help fund agricultural conservation efforts, habitat restoration efforts and the sustainable use of soil, water and other natural resources, according to Mr. Bellone's office.

Others who have worked with jaguar conservation are not convinced that the critical habitat is necessary, pointing to the apparent dearth of jaguars in the U.S. as a sign that the prospective area is not its preferred home.

«Corals are creating a habitat for other species, and reefs are critical to fisheries.»

If the proposed critical habitat designation is approved, other federal agencies will be required to consult with NOAA Fisheries on actions such as oil exploration and drilling that could destroy or adversely affect the area.

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.

No scientist yet knows which habitats are critical for vent organisms or how many vents can be destroyed before the connectivity with other vents along the ridge is lost.

Ensure that industry, mining, infrastructure, and rural development programs and projects are fully sensitive to the conservation needs of snow leopards and their ecosystems, do not adversely affect or fragment key populations or critical habitats, and employ wildlife - friendly design, offsets, and other mitigation tools.

Snow leopards function as a keystone species — although they occur in relatively low abundance, snow leopards play a critical role in regulating the populations of other species, preventing any one species from dominating the habitat.

The shoreline fringe and associated acacia woodland provide critical habitat for the endangered Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsciseros) and other mammals.

Finally, there's one last critical point that Robert Bryce conveniently ignores: Climate change threatens hundreds of migratory bird species, which are already stressed by habitat loss, invasive species and other environmental threats.

In what the military refers to as Alaska's «premier» joint training exercise, Alaskan Command aims to conduct «Northern Edge» over 8,429 nautical miles, which include critical habitat for all five wild Alaskan salmon species and 377 other species of marine life.

The wooded land not only is important as a critical habitat for birds and other wildlife but sequesters carbon that contributes to global climate change.

The group's current goal is to ensure protection of critical bird habitats threatened by global climate change and other causes.

Areas of the Hudson River could be made off limits to barges carrying crude oil and other petroleum products on the basis of the risk they may pose to critical fish and wildlife habitats, waterfront communities, drinking water infrastructure and navigation safety.

However, we know that tropical forests keep carbon out of the atmosphere, keep the land surface cool, and play a critical role in providing habitat, maintaining biodiversity, and other good stuff for people.

These woodlands serve as critical habitats for Cerulean and Prothonotary warblers and more than two dozen other threatened bird species.