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endangered and character
Although the area was declared a Regional Natural Park ( parc naturel régional ) in 1979, it lost that status in 1997 as intensive agricultural development around the Marsh meant the unique character of the region was endangered, leaving only a core Interregional Park ( Parc Interrégional du Marais poitevin ) of 185 km².
Continuing his film work, Lerman had his first starring role in a motion picture, playing Roy Eberhardt in the children's adventure Hoot ; his character moves to Florida from Montana and attempts to save endangered burrowing owls.
His Shagg E. Dawg character was used on information cards about endangered species that were included with kid's meals from Wendy's fast-food restaurants in 1993.

endangered and call
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker was listed as an endangered species on 11 March 1967, though the only evidence of its existence at the time was a possible recording of its call made in East Texas.
Many endangered species call Sag Harbor home such as the eastern tiger salamander which inhabits wetlands surrounding the village.
Overnight, the whale learns Sweet ’ s ‘ Missing Time ’ by itself before it disappears, and when Keiichi realises this, he learns that by giving the endangered whales a call enabling them to locate each other ( 5D spacetime being even more than infinite than 3D, Schrödinger ’ s Whales rarely meet by pure dumb luck ), he ’ s inadvertently saved the species.

endangered and police
This practice is controversial, with for example, New York State banning this practice in 1996 on the grounds that it endangered motorists who might be pulled over by people impersonating police officers.
" Had these tanks ruptured and exploded, anyone within one-half mile of the explosion could have been endangered ", the sheriff's department said ; within such a range were 12 police officers and residents of a senior citizens complex.
Protesters claimed there were incidents of excessive force by police, however, Mayor Menino denied the claim, explaining that the occupation's move into another section of the Greenway endangered public safety
Despite being endangered with arrest by the tsarist police, Arciszewski returned to Poland in August 1900 and was arrested soon afterwards.
Physical safety of the police was at no time endangered.

endangered and when
This means that species are more likely to become population threatened, endangered, and even extinct, when and where abiotic stress is especially harsh.
Canis rufus rufus, the third surviving subspecies, was also functionally extinct in the wild by 1980, although that status was changed to " critically endangered " when captive-bred red wolves were reintroduced in eastern North Carolina in 1987.
Trophy hunting is most often criticised when it involves rare or endangered animals.
) so that critical combinations of letters and numbers can be pronounced and understood by those who transmit and receive voice messages by radio or telephone regardless of their native language, especially when navigation or persons might be endangered due to transmission static.
This latter find was significant as it represented a new location beyond those originally identified when the Hungerford's crawling water beetle was categorized as endangered on March 7, 1994, under the provisions of the U. S. Endangered Species Act.
He was in every battle of his regiment ; was on the picket line at Kennesaw when a Federal force tried to surprise them, but he was on his guard while the others were unsuspecting, and would have been captured and the command surprised and endangered, had he not fired his gun.
The LCP facility had been declared a Superfund site when it closed in 1994 and was already under scrutiny by the EPA when Service biologists discovered mercury poisoning in endangered wood storks on St. Simons Island.
The standard reference work on these varieties of pear was published in 1963 by the Long Ashton Research Station, since when many varieties have become critically endangered or lost.
Later, they expand their genetic program to preserve human bloodlines when mankind is endangered by a widespread plague called the " Demon Scourge ," genetically engineered and unleashed by the thinking machines.
The delay was lengthened when an endangered species was found in the path of the proposed roadway.
Dozens of lumber mills cut fir and pine lumber, and the industry flourished until the late 1980s when the Northern Spotted Owl and other endangered species were driving forces in changing western forest policy.
In 2003 the town's future as an incorporated community seemed endangered when only six voters ( out of 127 registered ) participated in a municipal election and only two candidates qualified for the four unpaid positions on the Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
A Stewart succession was suddenly endangered when David II had his marriage to Margaret annulled in March 1369 leaving the king free to re-marry and with the prospect of a Bruce heir.
Asserting that " Language diversity is essential to the human heritage ," UNESCO's Ad Hoc Expert Group on Endangered Languages offers this definition of an endangered language: "... when its speakers cease to use it, use it in an increasingly reduced number of communicative domains, and cease to pass it on from one generation to the next.
The romance between Paul and Mary is endangered when Mary's family and friends, all steel mill workers, go on strike against Paul's father.
He demonstrated his loyalty to the people by treating them with respect and fighting amongst them even when endangered.
In 2008, the IUCN classified the species as globally endangered, a substantial improvement since the 1996-assessment when it was considered extinct in the wild, since at that time the species was indeed only surviving in captivity.
His story might have ended there, because the Russian captain, fearing that the lives of other crew members would be endangered, refused to allow a lifeboat to be launched in order to pick up Luckner when he fell overboard in the middle of the ocean.
* In the Final Crisis: Superman Beyond comic series, a mysterious statue, resembling Superman, is left behind by the original Monitor, to activate only when the DC Multiverse is endangered.
He has stated that he believes in a restricted right to abortion, stating that " abortions should be legal only when the pregnancy resulted from incest, rape, or when the life of the woman is endangered.
Such conglomerates frequently extend beyond traditional media fields and thus have extensive financial interests that may be endangered when certain information is publicized.
Harman supports that abortions should always be legal, especially in instances where the pregnancy has resulted from incest or rape, or when the life of the mother is endangered.

endangered and they
Because they were seen as a threat to livestock and animals that humans hunted for fur in Tasmania, devils were hunted and became endangered.
Specifically, Bell ruled that McDonald's endangered the health of their workers and customers by " misleading advertising ", that they " exploit children ", that they were " culpably responsible " in the infliction of unnecessary cruelty to animals, and that they were " antipathetic " to unionisation and paid their workers low wages.
Populations in southwest and central Asia are small and fragmented ; in the northeast, they are critically endangered.
On the IUCN Red List, they were reclassified from " extinct in the wild " to " critically endangered " after a reassessment in 2008 and from " critically endangered " to " endangered " after a 2011 reassessment.
In many cases, the predators are not only apex predators, but are also endangered species themselves as they have lower population sizes than prey species and are much more vulnerable to extinction because of their population size, competition with other predators, and the fluctuations in prey populations.
The turtles are endangered due to shrimpers ' nets and they are popular in Mexico as boot material and food.
Dingoes are quite abundant in large parts of Australia, and yet some argue that they are endangered due to interbreeding with other dogs in many parts of their range.
The Justices delayed taking action on Roe and a closely related case, Doe v. Bolton, until they decided Younger v. Harris, as they felt that the appeals raised difficult questions on judicial jurisdiction, and United States v. Vuitch, where they considered the constitutionality of a District of Columbia statute that criminalized abortion except where the mother's life or health was endangered.
He argued that if the soldiers were endangered by the mob, which he called " a motley rabble of saucy boys, negroes, and molattoes, Irish teagues and outlandish jack tarrs sailors ", they had the legal right to fight back, and so were innocent.
If they were provoked but not endangered, he argued, they were at most guilty of manslaughter.
Today they are often the only hope we have of stopping many threatened or endangered species from becoming extinct.
After the 1903 flood damaged and endangered much of the town, it was relocated about one mile ( 1. 6 km ) north to its present location out of “ the bottoms ” ( as they are still known today ) near the river.
In December 2006, he appeared on the ITV programme Extinct, presented by Sir Trevor McDonald and Zoe Ball, which saw Suchet and seven other well-known celebrities visit critically endangered species of animals and try and plead their case for the viewers so that they would pick up the phone and vote for the animal.
Because of the Green Iguana's popularity in the pet trade and as a food source in Latin America, they are listed on the CITES Appendix II, which means that while they are not an endangered species, " their trade must be controlled so as to not harm the species in the future ".
In my family they used to say that the Serbs in Bosnia were much better than Serbs in Serbia [...] and remember, the defense mechanism was not created through a short period of time ; it take decades, centuries [...] I am a biologist and I know: most capable of adapting and surviving are those species that live close to other species from whom they are endangered.

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