Sentences with phrase «destruction of habitats»

It leads to the extinction of species especially by destruction of their habitat.

Since most of the loss of species is a consequence of destruction of habitats it is clear that the prevention of further losses means that this sort of activity has to be severely restricted.

In some cases this is due to local destruction of their habitat.

«We usually associate declines in animal populations with our physical destruction of habitat, but the noise we make is another threat that we can't ignore,» he said.

The main killer — outside of ongoing destruction of habitat — is a fungal disease known as chytrid (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis).

Overfishing, pollution, climate change and destruction of habitats like coral reefs are all putting our seas in trouble but academics fear the risk is not being taken as seriously as concerns for the loss of animals and plants which live on land.

That's made them a popular target for an illegal pet trade which — along with destruction of their habitat in the Philippines, eastern Indonesia, and New Guinea — has decimated their numbers.

We destroy the land for our homes and businesses and then we bring in non-native predators to kill the wildlife that survived the initial destruction of the habitat.

Nothing involving coal ever comes without NO2 and SO2 problems, without particulate problems, without mining deaths and mining diseases and mining runoff and mining destruction of our habitat.

Consequential to such a scenario are widespread food shortages, extreme poverty, massive destruction of our habitats, and imbalance in our ecosystems.

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.

Bottom Line: Birds are killed by destruction of habitat and millions of pounds of pesticides every year, but no one wants to stop development or see our lawns and golf courses devoured by insects.

But declines are occurring in the absence of destruction of habitats, suggesting other causes such as pollution from pesticides, acid rain and increases in ultraviolet exposure or even change in climate (Blaustein & Wake 1990).

«Given the rapid depletion of both forest and savanna elephant numbers in the past century and the ongoing destruction of their habitats, the conservation implications of recognition and species - level management of these distinct taxa are considerable,» the authors write

Much more serious is the destruction of habitat by deforestation and expansion of farming.

We oppress animals in factory farming when we deny them such elementary freedoms as space in which to walk or stretch their limbs, in cruel animal experimentation, and in the destruction of habitats.

(c) Globalization has provided a new impetus to the destruction of the habitat and livelihood of indigenous communities in many countries of the South.

Most of this loss is due to the destruction of habitats such as forests, especially those in the tropics.

Many species are endangered due to agricultural intensification, including the intensive use of mineral fertilizers and of herbicides, intensive soil management and the destruction of habitats.

While he thinks the gap will widen as our minds connect ever more in the cyberworld, it might also widen for reasons we should be ashamed of: climate change and the destruction of habitats.

Although people rarely intend to drive species into oblivion, as with the giraffe, they do so through the destruction of habitat, poaching and legal hunting.

«The increased rate of extinction in all habitats we are currently observing is attributable to the direct influence of humans, such as destruction of habitat, over-fishing and pollution.

This makes them particularly vulnerable to the destruction of their habitat.

He charts unflinchingly the four massive human impacts on the planet: our hunting to extinction of megafauna; our destruction of habitat; climate change; and biological invasions.

In addition to this, there was a drastic drop in the number of specimens in the 20th century due to its persecution, the destruction of its habitat, and two major viral epidemics suffered by the rabbit, its main food source.

«Understanding what their strategies are to ensure high reproductive success may eventually help with conservation efforts, although at the moment the main threat to them is the destruction of their habitat,» says Heistermann.

When birds face the destruction of their habitat, some species don't make it while others survive.

Bird and bumblebee species that nest late in the year are suffering more from the destruction of habitats, new research suggests.

The 80 to 100 per cent declines seen in Quebec are, he says, due in large part to white - nose syndrome, but «the destruction of their habitats is another major problem.»

According to this volume, it is known from only two sites in eastern Zaire, where it is threatened by the destruction of its habitat.

Human exploitation of marine species and destruction of habitat have been spoiling coastal ecosystems since the birth of the Roman republic.

Conservationists say some 16 million sage grouse went from nearly blacking out the sun when they took wing over the sprawling western sagebrush to being nearly blacked out by the destruction of their habitat.

And while climate change remains a legitimate concern for wildlife — particularly on isolated mountaintops and in species - poor polar regions — it does not come close to the immediate, irreparable damage caused by the destruction of habitat.

The main cause for their dwindling population is the destruction of their habitat.

The environmental impact of buffel grass introduced to stabilise the ground but now has led to destruction of habitats.

Laws have been passed in many areas of the world to protect bears from hunters and the destruction of their habitat.

We use the sanctuary as the last choice location to place those Calvert County cats which can not be adopted and can not be returned to their original colony site, usually because of ongoing consturctions and destruction of their habitat or other local activites which are dangerous to the cats.

bird feeders and nesting boxes — but as much to compensate for the destruction of habitat caused by the creation of the plot on which their home stands than for the occasional kill that their cat makes.

Indeed, it is well accepted that human impacts like construction, roads, nest disturbance, light pollution, pesticides, destruction of habitat, etc. are the primary threats to wildlife, including threatened and endangered species, as well as changes in the environment.

Sprawl results in the permanent alteration and destruction of habitats.

At the heart of both studies is a deeper concern about the response of the natural world to human - induced change, in the destruction of habitat, the loss of the plants, birds, insects, mammals, amphibians and reptiles that depend on habitat, and in the steady increase in atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases, as a consequence of profligate combustion of fossil fuels.

Entire species of insects and animals have disappeared because of the destruction of their habitats.

The result is an increase in the severity and frequency of floods, the displacement and destruction of habitat for fish and other water dependent species, and a decrease in base flows in our streams and water in our aquifers.

«Unfortunately, because we often are so unaware of these underwater tribes and our negative impact upon them through slaughterings and uncontrolled human activities, they are facing the greatest challenge of all: to survive the destruction of their habitat and depletion of food resources.»

Established in 1977, our mission is to end the destruction of habitat and slaughter of wildlife in the world's oceans in order to conserve and protect ecosystems and species.