Sentences with phrase «by human encroachment»

The clip seen below was recorded in the Cross River gorilla's dwindling habitat near Cameroon's border with Nigeria, a region hit hard by human encroachment and poaching.

A photographer undertook an artistic and scientific odyssey that was inspired by an ancient migration now imperiled by human encroachment.

Beard's visual record of Africa serves as a prophetic warning concerning the irrevocable threat to wildlife caused by human encroachment — cautionary tales of loss, distance from nature, density, and stress that still resonate today worldwide.

• Most likely to be negatively impacted by human encroachment.

The pronghorn is one of several endangered species whose habitat is severely impacted by human encroachment in the form of highways, access roads for increased border patrols, fences and other barriers.

Not exact matches

Following closely behind are a multitude of threats, including human - lion conflict, encroachment of PAs by humans and livestock and in some cases, the emerging threat of direct poaching of lions for the illegal wildlife trade.

Published Aug. 25 in the online journal PLOS ONE, the study explores options for mitigating the impact of human encroachment on five predators who cling to survival in isolated pockets of protected forest surrounded by a mosaic of roadways, unprotected forest, plantations and pastures.

This campaign is to stop poaching and habitat encroachment as many animals are in danger of extinction brought on by human activities around the world.

«The primary threat to the Key Largo woodrat,» explains a 1999 USFWS report (which, admittedly, includes feral cats among the «other threats associated with human encroachment»), «is habitat loss and fragmentation caused by increasing urbanization.»

Because the Channel Islands are almost entirely owned and controlled by either the Catalina Island Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy, or the federal government, the fox has a chance to receive the protection it needs, including constant supervision by interested officials without the ongoing threat of human encroachment on its habitat.

Paradoxically, I'm struck more by the sheer persistence of biological systems in the face of human encroachments.

Secondly, the areas that the Hadzabe do maintain are under increasing pressures brought about by human population growth and increasing land encroachment and conversion.

That old phrase tossed out by parents at fearful children about spiders, «They're more afraid of you than you are of them,» has never been more true, at least according to researchers from the King Juan Carlos University (URJC) who have found that spiders, like many other animal species, are suffering from habitat loss and human encroachment.

The series was conceived by Cabral as a way to highlight the plight of elephants, apes, tigers, pandas, lions, wolves and other animals that are currently being threatened by habitat loss, poaching, and other environmental pressures brought on by human greed, encroachment and massive climate change.

In Solloway v Hampshire County Council (1981) 79 LGR 449, 258 Estates Gazette 858 Lord Justice Dunn said that, in Leakey v National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty [1980] QB 485, [1980] 1 All ER 17, Lord Justice Megaw had placed nuisance by tree roots and branches into the same category as any other nuisance not brought about by human agency, and had imported into tree root cases, as conditions of liability, the requirement of knowledge of the encroachment and the requirement of a reasonably foreseeable risk that the encroachment would cause damage.