Sentences with phrase «threaten endangered»

We assume that no one reading these pages would ever think to further threaten endangered species or import invasive species for a collection or for profit.

In California, the pollution and development associated with fracking threaten endangered species like the California condor, San Joaquin kit fox and blunt - nosed leopard lizard.

Illegal gillnetters, shrimp boats, nest robbers, and vehicles threaten endangered sea turtles on Playa Manzanillo, Nicoya Peninsula

He's Davis Okoye, a former special - ops soldier turned primatologist, who is eager to open a can of whoop - ass on poachers foolish enough to threaten endangered species like George, the albino gorilla he's sheltering at a San Diego wildlife sanctuary.

Strategy that unleashed cedar leaf beetles on Tamarisk trees may have to be revised as the chompers spread to threaten endangered birds

Agencies have used fur - trappers to remove predators threatening endangered species.

These devoted people help maintain the health of island foxes and move quickly when disease threatens this endangered population.

The suit says that the state violated the river's right to flourish by polluting and draining it and threatening endangered species, notes Turkewitz.

Illegal redwood poaching impacts one of the most sensitive resources in Redwood National & State Parks, a designated World Heritage and International Biosphere Reserve, injuring live trees that can live up to 2,000 years old, but also causing related impacts to scenic qualities and threatening endangered species.

SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this week announced its intent to begin cleaning up toxic, lead - based paint at federal facilities on Midway Atoll that kills up to 10,000 Laysan albatross chicks each year and also threatens the endangered Laysan duck.

ADD to that the senseless destruction of «carbon - sequestering» trees, with the enormous loss of pristine rainforest threatening endangered animal species like the majestic Sumatran elephant...

Cambodia's sand - dredging industry poses a huge risk to its coastal environment, threatening endangered species, fish stocks and local livelihoods.

Not greening their sex lives, but seeing the earth's rarest critters without further threatening these endangered species.

Forest clearance in this area threatens this endangered species because it reduces natural habitat and consequently increases human - tiger conflicts, an unfortunate consequence for both sides.

Not exact matches

There are 6 species of sloths in the world, and two of them are considered threatened — while the pygmy sloth is classified as critically endangered, the maned sloth is classified as vulnerable.

March 9 (Reuters)- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday said he had formally asked for the state to be excluded from a federal offshore drilling program that he said would threaten its ocean resources and endanger efforts toward a cleaner energy economy.

The rate of life - threatening complications has also soared since the 1990s, endangering more than 50,000 U.S. women a year.

Sept. 26, 2012: A coalition of conservation groups files suit in Federal Court to force Ottawa to protect endangered and threatened species along the route of the proposed pipeline, including Pacific humpback whales.

Then again, it could endanger employers more, and if they feel threatened and avoid pay cuts, that amounts to a big net boon for workers.

The Syrian opposition warned on Sunday that attacks by the army, backed by Russian warplanes, threatened a U.S. - Russian deal for a cessation of hostilities with collapse and endangered future peace Continue Reading

Different though their status was — Protestantism as the historical religion of state in Prussia and elsewhere, Catholicism as anxious protector of its endangered milieu — both churches were prisoners of the desire, above all, to preserve a threatened status quo.

In 2007, the bald eagle was removed from the threatened and endangered species list.

(The one exception is an instance in which a federally designated «endangered species» is threatened.

Since then, a subspecies of lion found in western and central Africa and parts of India will receive «endangered» status under the ESA and a second subspecies, found in eastern and southern Africa, will be designated «threatened.»

Um, not endangered or threatened.

Wesley says this is true for all Christians, whatever their sexual orientation, who to one degree or another, «experience the same frustration [Wesley does] as God challenges, threatens, endangers, and transform all of our natural desires and affections.»

Ironically, to achieve that reduction in disease levels, trapping would have to reduce an animal population to threatened or endangered status.

Same twisted reasoning that opposes killing the barred owls that are harming the endangered spotted owls or the sea lions that are decimating threatened salmon species.

Habitat loss has now been identified as the main threat to 85 - 90 % of all species described by the IUCN as «threatened» or «endangered» and is the most commonly recorded reason for species extinction over the last 20 years.

Wild Copper River Salmon is neither threatened nor endangered.

«We will be working together to deliver environmental water to smaller local wetland and floodplain sites to improve habitat and provide refuges for endangered and threatened native bird and fish species such as the Regent Parrot and the Murray Hardyhead,» Mr Reilly said.

Consisting of 9000 acres, the Reserve protects unique ecosystems and vernal pools, as well as more than 200 species of native birds and 49 endangered, threatened or rare animal and plant species.

Ecological research already carried out in these national parks and surrounding coffee plantations has shown the presence of more than 300 species of birds, (including endemic species, threatened forest specialists and birds of prey e.g. Black Hawk - Eagle Spizaetus tyrannus), 31 mammals species (some of them are endangered species such as the ocelot, cacomistle and Mexican porcupine), 26 reptile species, and 326 tree and bush species.

Like certain creatures in the Amazon, these threatened names are at risk of becoming endangered in the near future.

On the other side of the spectrum, a bill that threatened to gut the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act was not passed.

The magnificent beaches of the Cape Cod National Seashore provide important nesting and migration habitat for the threatened piping plover and endangered roseate tern along with other species.

Members enjoy free admission to our wildlife sanctuaries, which provide people with much - needed places for recreation and relaxation, and are home to more than 150 endangered and threatened native species.

With your help we have protected more than 35,000 acres, and our statewide network of wildlife sanctuaries is home to over 150 endangered and threatened native species.

Shedd Aquarium is committed to a number of projects designed to preserve threatened or endangered aquatic species.

As Shedd Aquarium's Director of Marine Research, Kessel will oversee a suite of marine conservation research projects aimed at protecting commercially important Caribbean species, such as endangered Nassau grouper and threatened queen conch.

Wellfleet Bay conducts conservation science research and protects endangered, threatened, and at risk wildlife, including sea turtles, diamondback terrapins, coastal waterbirds, and Atlantic horseshoe crabs throughout the Outer Cape, and protects rare and iconic Cape Cod habitats on its 1,100 acre Sanctuary.

Many of the projects focus on endangered or threatened species, or those that have declining populations.

Although religious practice is nominally free in France, with completely secular state that does not interfere in religious beliefs, there are mechanisms that could be used against «dangerous» cults which threaten rule of law, especially if said cults endanger human life.

And despite the BFTA and IFTF insisting that they «strongly condemn trade in endangered species», the ADI remains concerned that threatened species are being illegally poached and traded for their skins, contributing to the extinction of species such as tigers, leopards and ocelots.

Influential committee says collapse in low - carbon investment is endangering jobs and threatening climate commitments

He oversees conservation and recovery programs for endangered and threatened marine mammal and sea turtle species in New England and the...

A guaranteed jail sentence for all those convicted of using a knife to threaten or endanger others is meeting a frosty reaction from campaigners.

If you use a knife to threaten or endanger a life, you will go to prison.

The area is a breeding and nesting ground for threatened and endangered birds like bald eagles and black terns.

On knife crime, he added: «We have already announced that we are bringing in an automatic prison sentence for any adults who use a knife to threaten and endanger.