Critical habitat is a specific area required to ensure these functions can be achieved by a species or population, such that the species or population can pass through that life stage and persist (e.g. cetacean calving grounds, spawning and egg-laying beaches, larval retention gyres in coastal currents, migration routes and over-wintering areas).
Critical habitat is a specific area required to ensure these functions can be achieved by a species or population, such that the species or population can pass through that life stage and persist (e.g. cetacean calving grounds, spawning and egg-laying beaches, larval retention gyres in coastal currents, migration routes and over-wintering areas).