Sentence examples for declared species from inspiring English sources

Between 2005 and 2007, alewife and blueback herring were declared Species of Concern by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), and harvest restrictions were put in place in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and North Carolina.

That's because the criteria adopted by the IUCN and others for declaring species extinct are very stringent, requiring targeted research.

However Stuart said that the IUCN figure was likely to be an underestimate of the problem, because scientists are very reluctant to declare species extinct even when they have sometimes not been seen for decades, and because few of the world's plants, fungi and invertebrates have yet been formally recorded and assessed.

Speaking in advance of two reports next week on the state of wildlife in Britain and Europe, Simon Stuart, chair of the Species Survival Commission for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature – the body which officially declares species threatened and extinct – said that point had now "almost certainly" been crossed.

The pelts of nearly four dozen polar bears that U.S. citizens shot in Canada in spring 2008 have remained stuck there after Fish and Wildlife declared the species as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

In 2005 that country's government declared the species in danger of extinction, and banned imports.

The last Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) in Malaysia was spotted two years ago in the Sabah region of Borneo but experts last month declared the species extinct in that country.

The animal kingdom has gained a new record holder after scientists declared a species of cricket to possess the largest known testes of any creature in relation to its body mass.

Fonseca's seed fly (Botanophila fonsecai), which is the focus of efforts to block the Coul Links development in Sutherland, has now officially been declared a species at risk of extinction.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has now declared the species extinct, changing its status from Critically Endangered.

Enough data was gathered on the tamaraw population by 1986, and the IUCN conservation monitoring center declared the species endangered.