Sentences with phrase «protecting critical habitat»

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) took an important step toward protecting critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act for the Cook Inlet beluga whale in Alaska by proposing to designate more than 3,000 square miles of the threatened whale's habitat for protection.

In addition to protecting critical habitat for native species, Mass Audubon's land conservation efforts provide many quality - of - life benefits, including clean drinking water, locally grown food, and places to learn about and enjoy nature.

What is disappointing to me here is that even under the NDP reign, the Alberta government still pretends it is serious about protecting and recovering endangered species but refuses to do just about anything meaningful in relation to the most important step in the process — which is to protect critical habitat.

Scientists, environmental leaders and hundreds of thousands of citizens across the country had urged the president to take action to protect critical habitat from oil spills, to aid the transition to a clean energy future and to help the United States meet the carbon reduction goals necessary to avert the worst effects of global climate change.

Not exact matches

RENO, Nev. (AP)-- Newmont Mining Corp. officials signed an agreement Tuesday with the U.S. government and the state of Nevada to protect some of the most critical sage grouse habitat in the West in exchange for assurances it will be allowed to develop...

May 1, 2018: Yesterday, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada released the first ever section 63 report under the Species at Risk Act, (SARA), where the Minister found that outside of protected areas, provinces and territories have failed to protect almost all of boreal caribou critical habitat.

Mass Audubon often needs funds quickly when a critical piece of property becomes available, or we have an opportunity to protect important habitat where local fundraising alone is insufficient.

This information is used to help protect and restore this critical wildlife habitat.

«Protecting and restoring this critical waterway, which has suffered from pollution and overdevelopment over so many years, is so important to improving our area's water quality, restoring our area's natural habitats, and improving Long Islanders» quality of life.»

«Protecting and restoring critical habitats that also provide connectivity between habitats are the main goals for which we have to work together in order to ensure the survival of jaguars in the Amazon River Basin,» said Diego Amorocho.

In order to protect moth populations at risk of extinction, the authors suggest that land - use managers should try to eliminate street lighting as much as possible in prime moth habitats, for example by turning off light at critical times in the year.

The scientific models that ecologists and conservation biologists rely on to determine which species and habitats to protect lack critical information to help them make effective decisions, according to a new study.

They say that coastal nursery grounds and offshore refuging areas for scalloped hammerheads are therefore critical habitats where protected marine reserves should be sited.

«By quantifying where and to what extent habitats reduce the exposure of vulnerable populations and property, our analyses are, to the best of our knowledge, the first to target where conservation and restoration of coastal habitats are most critical for protecting lives and property on a national scale,» the paper says.

Monitoring and Restoration Through monitoring and restoration programs, the park and its partners are working to conserve critical nesting habitat and to protect the integrity of island and marine ecosystems that support seabird populations in southern California.

Click the map below for a closer look at Channel Islands Marine Protected Areas including individual island maps, critical species and habitat information, photos and videos.

Mongabay points out that a new report by the IUCN says that the Ganges River dolphin, whose range also includes the Brahmaputra River, faces multiple threats and may face extinction in there unless critical habitat is protected: Of an estimated total population of 2,000, some 240 - 300 live in the Brahmaputra (in northeast India, flowing into Bangladesh, for those not up on South Asian geography).

Setting aside the question of how well officially protected areas actually protect anything, poor planning means these areas often completely omit critical habitats and key species.

The Surui Forest Carbon Project is designed to prevent at least five million tons of carbon dioxide from being emitted over 30 years while protecting critical rainforest habitat, and its credits have been certified under both the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and the Climate, Community, and Biodiversity (CCB) Alliance.

After extensive multidisciplinary review by independent experts, the VCS board and the Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance agreed in 2012 that the steps the Suruí were taking would sequester at least five million tons of carbon dioxide over 30 years while protecting critical rainforest habitat.

He believes that unlike MPAs, which protect just certain areas, this approach can protect all of a country's critical ocean habitats and species while continuing to provide a stable food source for people.

Protected farmland also safeguards critical wildlife habitat.

Economic incentives protect traditional rural livelihoods, critical habitat and reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Browns Canyon National Monument, including the Wilderness Study Area, helps produce clean water by protecting watersheds, provides critical wildlife habitat, maintains biological diversity, offers outdoor recreation opportunities, provides scenic beauty and serves as a spiritual or psychological haven from modern day pressures.

We scale projects protecting critical eco-regions around the world and connecting often isolated islands of habitat to restore threatened wildlife populations.

Critical habitats aren't protected from logging, although federal agencies are required to consult with the Fish and Wildlife to see if a specific project, such as a timber sale, would jeopardize the recovery of an endangered species.

The Sierra Club is working on steps to return the designation of Nature Reserve at the local level, but nationally the Club's legal team is petitioning U.S. Fish and Wildlife and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to protect the Corridor's beaches as critical habitat.

We later filed suit to ensure the listing occurred and to win 187,000 square miles of protected «critical habitat» in Alaska in December 2010.

Earth Day present for Coachella Valley habitat The federal government has approved a $ 6 million grant that will finance the purchase of hundreds of acres of new land for the Coachella Valley Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan, an incredible victory for the more than two dozen endangered and protected species who live in the critical habitat in Southern California.

Leading a team for Conservation International, David Emmett began working in the region to protect critical otter habitat that had become degraded and was threatened by a hydroelectric dam proposal.

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.

Does the Endangered Species Act authorize the federal government to designate as critical habitat private land that is unsuitable as habitat and has no connection with a protected species?

DOI officials believe that the unprecedented efforts and partnerships created to protect critical sage grouse habitat is sufficient to adequately protect and grow the species.