The owl is a threatened species, and until a few days ago its presence in fire-scorched Miller Canyon was a matter of speculation.
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Mjadu said he had no idea trade in leopard parts was illegal, and he did not know that the leopard was a threatened species.
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Then there's the polar bear, which Interior Secretary Kempthorne announced in May he was listing as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
But Dr Biggs and colleagues point to the experience with crocodiles as an example of how a legalised trading regime can work for the benefit of a threatened species.
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They are considered a threatened species but not endangered.
There also were loggerheads, which are a threatened species.
"Genuine backbenchers will become a threatened species, " he warned, calling on MPs to support an amendment by fellow Conservative Charles Walker to lower the maximum number of MPs filling ministerial roles from 95 to 87.
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Even as she professed her affection for them, Palin had, in early August, filed suit against Dirk Kempthorne, the United States Secretary of the Interior, seeking to reverse his decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
They are Utah prairie dogs, a species listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
But when it came to sharks, the president said he was sure that the sanctuary is backed by science - sharks are threatened as a group of species, and sanctuaries can help.
China is also hosting the Global Botanic Gardens Congress in Wuhan this month, where the BGCI will launch a survey of garden collections of threatened species.
According to WSPA, confusion in the laws and inconsistent sentencing has helped make London a global hub for the trade in threatened species.
The RSPB lists hen harrier as a red status species, meaning it is threatened and populations have suffered severe declines in numbers.
The site is globally important for threatened seabirds and migratory birds, a number of salmonid species, and for marine mammals including Steller's sea lion and some cetacean species.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists a dozen types of night monkeys on its Red List of threatened species.
"A key finding of our analysis was that the most highly threatened species tend to relatively cheap to save on account of their small range sizes, such as the Razo lark, which lives on the island of Razo in the Cape Verde islands, " said Mr McCarthy.
Two years ago, scientists compiling the internationally recognised Red List of Threatened Species decided to include polar bears, giving them a listing of Vulnerable to Extinction.
Nearly one and a half times the size of California, the world's fourth-largest island boasts over 12, 000 plant species, nearly 10, 000 of them not found anywhere else, and 346 species of reptile, including 66 varieties of chameleon threatened by a largely illegal international pet trade.
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And about a third of ocean-going sharks appear on the internationally-recognised Red List of Threatened Species.
One of Pombo's main projects in that job has been to rewrite the Endangered Species Act in a way that would aid companies like Pacific Lumber, environmental activists say, at the expense of threatened species.
Among the species threatened by bottom fishing is the orange roughy, which lives for more than a century and takes decades to reach sexual maturity: in those gloomy depths, creatures aren't used to sudden events.
Humans pose much more of a threat to sharks than the reverse: 17% of more than 1000 assessed shark species are threatened by fishing and bycatch, according to the Red List of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
They offer a wealth of ecosystem functions and services (freshwater, biodiversity, forest products, minerals, habitats for threatened species), and landscapes and cultures of exceptional value.
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