Sentences with phrase «by habitat degradation»

The aptly named Least Tern — it's really small — has been bedeviled for decades by habitat degradation.

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While caring for animals affected by human activity such as overfishing, habitat degradation, plastic pollution and rising ocean temperatures, the team seeks to increase public engagement and advocacy along with inspire new individuals to make a difference.

As a result of degradation, overharvesting, and human activity, the global abundance of this habitat has declined by 85 percent, according to the Nature Conservancy.

Based on a scientific literature review of 14 other publications, including some that looked at effects of existing walls and fences on the border, the authors outlined several concerns about the proposed wall, including habitat destruction and degradation caused by the construction of the wall and the roads on either side of the wall.

«A lot of people think the loss or degradation of habitat is the big threat to wild animals, but here it shows there is a major threat from direct exploitation by humans,» Ripple says.

Retaliatory persecution by pastoralists, depletion of wild prey, habitat degradation, poorly planned developmental activities, extractive industries such as mining, and poaching pose the main threats to the species» survival.

Another potential feedback might occur if reduced timber yields force loggers to compensate by enlarging the amount of area harvested, resulting in higher CO2 emissions through deforestation and associated fires, as well as increased rates of habitat fragmentation / degradation and species extinctions

Applying the ESA prohibition on the take of an endangered species, including habitat degradation, to the issue of free - roaming cats, it would appear that under the right circumstances, aa court could find that cats degrade the habitat of endangered or threatened predator species by killing the prey upon which those species depend for food.

Such act may include significant habitat modification or degradation, where it actually kills or injures wildlife by significantly impairing essential behavioral patterns, including breeding, feeding or sheltering.»

The first of which being loss and degradation of habitat resulting from over grazing by domestic livestock (cattle and horses) and feral nonnative herbivores (sheep, deer, elk).

Though habitat loss and degradation, as well as by - catch by fishermen, is a threat to these dolphin throughout their range, in the Brahmaputra the Ganges dolphin also faces threats from dams and oil exploration.

Microplastics create an estimated $ 13 billion a year in losses from damage to marine ecosystems (not to mention the severe degradation to natural capital suffered by animals and their habitats), as well as financial losses to fisheries and tourism.

You can blame habitat loss and degradation, including deforestation or wetland drainage, for posing the main threats to terrestrial mammals, followed by pollution and overharvesting.

These include microplastics, which impose severe degradation to natural capital suffered by animals and their habitats.

Climate change almost always exacerbates the problems caused by other environmental stressors including: land use change and the consequent habitat fragmentation and degradation; extraction of timber, fish, water, and other resources; biological disturbance such as the introduction of non-native invasive species, disease, and pests; and chemical, heavy metal, and nutrient pollution.

That is because bumblebees may not receive as much attention as bees, while they seem to be doing at least equally bad in today's ecologically stressed world, threatened by Colony Collapse Disorder and other factors that result from agricultural intensification and habitat degradation.

These include the establishment of effective protected areas that would encompass a significant proportion of terrestrial, aquatic and aerial habitats, halting the degradation of forests and other native land cover and restoring those that have already been degraded; shifting diets to plant - based foods; reducing fertility rates by ensuring access to family planning services; and developing new green technologies.

The current trajectory of biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse is being driven by cutting down forests, over-fishing, chemical pollution, soil degradation and erosion, habitat destruction, desertification and so on.

East African Crowned cranes, a subspecies of the Grey Crowned cranes, are endangered due to habitat loss and degradation from human activities including due pesticide use, overgrazing by livestock, drainage of their wetland breeding areas and drought.

These include microplastics, which result in an estimated $ 13 billion a year in losses from damage to marine ecosystems (not to mention the severe degradation to natural capital suffered by animals and their habitats) and financial losses to fisheries and tourism.