Ship strike is the major anthropogenic source of mortality for severely endangered North Atlantic right whales. Two primary tools are given to US wildlife managers by the Endangered Species Act post-listing to ensure species survival by reducing negative anthropogenic impacts: (1) creating a recovery...
Furthermore, subspecies are entrenched in some important wildlife conservation policy and thus have legal status (e.g. US Endangered Species Act, Wildlife Conservation Act of Taiwan, Canada’s Species at Risk Act). Therefore, ignoring subspecies designations because of personal philosophy can be ...
Due to successful court challenges by environmental groups under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, tree harvests in the early to mid-1990s dropped to one sixth of harvesting levels in the mid-1980s and stayed at those levels for the remainder of the 1990s. Pulp and paper mills in the ...
Using the Endangered Species Act, environmental groups filed successful lawsuits restricting harvesting in order to protect the northern spotted owl, among other species. While the Clinton administration attempted to broker a compromise between timber interests and environmentalists in 1993, harvests ...
Among the about 55 polystome species that are known to date from the 327 modern living chelonians, only four species of Polystomoides are currently recognised within the 45 South American freshwater turtles. Methods During 2012, several sites in the vicinity of the cities Cayenne and Kaw in ...
It hosts a variety of marine species and evidence from previous surveys suggest many are rare or endangered. Les Sauvages is currently unprotected and vulnerable to fishing pressure and other impacts. Despite recognition as a site of importance, the area is relatively understudied. To fully...
Designated National Park: Signed into law October 31, 1994, the Desert Protection Act (DPA) added 1.3 million acres to DeathValley National Monument and promoted it to National Park status. DPA also designated 3.1 million acres of the park as wilderness. ...
low-weight, low-value, business to consumer shipments from (a) points of export in the European Union ("EU") to final destinations in select destination countries outside the EU (as identified below) and (b) points of export in countries outside the EU to destinations in the EU. UPS...
Unit 1 Survival Section 1 Description: Lesson 1 Activity 1 1a H – The narrator clings to the edge of a huge drop. 1b C, E, A, D, I, F, G, B Activity 2 1a 'terror' – line 6; 'foolish' – line 15 1b The narrator experienced 'terror' as she got ...
n. The two subspecies were not reciprocally monophyletic and genetic distances in COI were small. All synonyms of S. populnea populnea have been considered, and species similar to S. populnea populnea have been examined, and not found to be related to S. populnea lapponicassp. n. A male ...