Sentences with phrase «step below endangered»
But since then, while the agency went on to propose listing the species as threatened (a step below endangered), Dirk Kempthorne, the Secretary of the Interior, has refused to draw a line between human - caused warming of the global climate and the retreating ice that Dr. Amstrup and other government biologists say poses the biggest threat to the bears.
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The developer took steps to relocate a population of the endangered desert tortoise, below.