Sentences with phrase «threatened elkhorn»

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Two Atlantic Ocean coral species — elkhorn and staghorn — are listed as «threatened» under the Endangered Species Act, and NOAA is considering whether an additional 82 coral species also warrant some level of protection under the law because of threats from warming water, ocean acidification and pollution.

Lead author and TED Senior Fellow Kristen Marhaver from the CARMABI Foundation on the Caribbean island of Curaçao said: «Strangely enough, pillar corals happen to spawn just half an hour before another threatened coral that is far better studied — the elkhorn corals.

In addition, we are proposing that two Caribbean species — elkhorn and staghorn corals — already listed under the ESA be reclassified from threatened to endangered.

Two coral species, elkhorn and staghorn, were listed as threatened in 2006.

In 2006 the Center secured protection for staghorn and elkhorn corals; today these corals were also proposed for reclassification, from «threatened» to «endangered.»

• Won the first Endangered Species Act listing for global warming - threatened species — the staghorn and elkhorn corals found off the Florida coast.