Sentences with phrase «after habitat destruction»

Invaders are now the second-most important cause of global biodiversity loss after habitat destruction, and the more we move about, the more they spread.

Not exact matches

This is often abandoned after a few years because it is not really suitable for this purpose, but the destruction of forest cover and animal habitat has long - lasting consequences.

The list is long and familiar: too much carbon dioxide warming the atmosphere and acidifying the ocean; too much land being cleared, leading to deforestation and desertification; overfishing causing crashes in one stock after another; and habitat destruction reducing biodiversity so drastically that some consider a sixth mass extinction to be under way.

After years of illegal poaching and habitat destruction, an area that was once thriving with Indochinese tigers is now barren.

[FN94] After the FWS amended its definition of harm by adding «an act which actually kills or injures wildlife,» as it reads today, the Ninth Circuit held in Palila II that habitat destruction that could result in extinction is sufficient to conclude a taking.

But to read and «feel», day after day after day so much of what is going wrong in terms of species extinction and non human habitat destruction, the result of our doing, well?

After all, GW / CC is the cause of: asthma and other health issues, war, famine, deaths of millions of children, future SLR, habitat destruction, extinction, etc., etc..

Native to the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico, the woodpecker species is believed to have gone extinct with the complete destruction of its habitat from logging, with nary a sighting after 1956.