No development shall occur within Southampton Township unless it is designed to avoid irreversible adverse impacts on habitats that are critical to the survival of any local populations of those rare threatened or endangered animal and plant species designated by the Natural Heritage Program and the Department of Environmental Protection pursuant to N.J.S.A. 23:2A et seq. All development or other authorized activity shall occur in the Township in a manner, which avoids disturbance to fish and wildlife habitats that are essential to the continued nesting, resting, breeding and feeding of significant populations of fish and wildlife.