The site however remains crucial habitat to wildlife including endangered species such as the California clapper rail and salt marsh common yellowthroat.

Consequently, due to the expansion of urban development salmon populations are dwindling due to the deterioration of salmon and their crucial habitats.

Environmentalists who dream of creating a greenway along the western edge of I-287 say the project would take away crucial habitat.

Among other species, the park provides crucial habitat for the Florida Scrub Jay, a threatened federal species of which less than 4,000 breeding pairs are thought to survive.

The Woko National Park is a crucial habitat for several species of birds and animals.

A significant spot along the Atlantic Flyway, the Refuge provides crucial habitat for migratory waterfowl and other birds.

They are used by mammals, reptiles and migratory birds as feeding and breeding grounds, and provide crucial habitats for fish and crustacean species of commercial importance.

Its beaches provide crucial nesting habitat for endangered marine turtles.

Travelling stock routes also provide crucial habitat and connectivity for many endangered species and ecosystems.

And removing protection, they say, would not allow the federal Fish and Wildlife Service to halt development in crucial grizzly habitat.