Sentences with phrase «from human encroachment»

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Descartes attempted to protect Catholic metaphysical methodology from the encroachment of science through his «innate ideas», which depicted the Greek static form as something known a priori to human experience of the physical.

These events appear to be the result of human encroachment into the monkeys» natural habitat, and probably resulted from transfer of human bacteria from hands to food that was then fed to monkeys, according to the report.

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.

«Those remaining would face increased threats from encroachment, conflicts with humans and extensive habitat fragmentation,» said Gaveau.

The biggest changes in the climate from humans is from deforestation and human encroachment.

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.

For centuries, human activities such as hunting and encroachment have made life difficult for the largest species, from mammals and fish to insects and trees, leading to an evolutionary trend towards the miniature.

Pollution and human encroachment may be a great threat elsewhere, but forests are suffering more from wind, bark beetles and wildfire.