Sentences with phrase «from loss of habitat»

The week aims to raise awareness about the importance of pollinators, and the threats they face, from loss of habitat to negative effects from pesticides.

Many croc species were hunted by people for their skins to make shoes and luggage, and some have suffered from a loss of habitat.

Typically we think of mammals, reptiles and insects like butterflies that feel the strain from loss of habitat.

The report, compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN), shows that well over half the threats to tree species arise from loss of habitat, due to agriculture or human settlement.

Post — Deepwater Horizon restoration efforts offer a unique opportunity to heal an entire ecosystem, one hurting from loss of habitat, water pollution and overfishing even before the spill.

When we lose one rare species, it actually symbolizes many changes of far broader impact, ranging from the loss of habitats (affecting large numbers of species) to large - scale alterations to the functions of those habitats.

Not exact matches

The goal or outcome of the plan is to ensure that there is, at a minimum, no net loss of caribou habitat from the project in the West Side Athabasca Range.

The DSWT organization fosters baby elephants who have been separated from their mothers due to poaching or from the loss of their natural habitat due to human conflict, drought or deforestation.

These projects include work to protect water voles in the South West of England from habitat loss and predation by the American Mink; work to safeguard the future of dormice in Cheshire and the creation of wildlife corridors benefitting birds, mammals and amphibians in North Wales.

Estimates from paw prints and camera traps put the number at about 1400 tigers (Science, 22 February 2008), a figure that reflects years of habitat loss and poaching.

Orangutan numbers on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo plummeted from 1999 to 2015, more as a result of human hunting than habitat loss, an international research team finds.

But more than 40 percent of the land - dwelling animals that live in mangrove forests are now under pressure from habitat loss, concludes an analysis published this week in BioScience.

Unlike many bird species that are now extinct on the Earth's small islands, the Eastern Bluebird and the Hispaniolan Crossbill disappeared long before the first people arrived, uncoupling their extinction from human actions, such as the introduction of new predators and habitat loss for agricultural use.

If the extinction trend continues apace, modern elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, bison, tigers and many more large mammals will soon disappear as well, as the primary threats from humans have expanded from overhunting, poaching or other types of killing to include indirect processes such as habitat loss and fragmentation.

Using data from several sources on 162 terrestrial animals and plants unique (endemic) to the Albertine Rift, the researchers used ecological niche modeling (computer models) to determine the extent of habitat already lost due to agriculture, and to estimate the future loss of habitat as a result of climate change.

«Those caribou herds that shift their range to remain within their habitat and those herds that are reduced in size and become isolated from neighboring herds are those most threatened with loss of genetic diversity,» said Hundertmark.

The native «Old Goats» are now only found in small feral herds, whose existence is under constant threat from habitat loss, culling and the ongoing impact of Swiss introgression.

Even without avian diseases and climate change, the honeycreepers still face threats from habitat loss, introduced predators and competition with non-native birds (some of whom, such as the Japanese bush - warbler, are thriving on the plateau, the study finds).

Faced with a variety of threats, from disease to habitat loss, about half of the world's roughly 7,000 species of amphibian are threatened with extinction — and more than 250 of those species haven't been seen since the turn of this century.

Using DNA extracted from the remains of extinct giant lemurs like this sloth lemur (genus Palaeopropithecus), researchers aim to better understand why Madagascar's largest lemurs were wiped out, and what makes some lemur species more vulnerable to hunting and habitat loss today.

The new report, from a panel of the interagency National Science and Technology Council, says that too little is known about endocrine disruptors to say where they rank compared to other environmental problems such as global warming and loss of species habitat.

A new census proves that the mountain gorillas of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest are slowly but surely recovering from habitat loss, disease and poaching

The team of researchers highlights the need to tackle at least the following three areas of research for the rest of the felids: differentiating habitat loss from the effects of fragmentation using theoretical scenarios; selecting priority areas for conservation, and analysing the consequences of habitat loss.

The latest review of primate survival prospects shows that habitat loss from farming and human expansion is putting our closest evolutionary relatives at risk

«Loss of rare species often results from habitat - scale modifications that affect far more than the one rare species.

And since it was rediscovered in the 1950s, biologists have struggled to protect it from the twin threats of habitat loss and introduced predators, which drove its numbers to bottom out at just 30 individuals in the 1980s.

«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.

CU Boulder Professor Michelle Sauther, shown here, is part of a new study showing Madagascar's ring - tailed lemurs are declining significantly from habitat loss, hunting, and illegal capture.

«Urbanization can lead to loss or extirpation of species entirely from a region, through habitat loss and pressure from non-native species,» says Dennis Skultety, a GIS / GPS specialist with the Illinois Natural History Survey at U of I, and the lead author on the study.

And global warming is so rapid — as fast as any warming in the past 65 million years — that species already under pressure from habitat loss and overexploitation are at greater risk of extinction.

They are the top three species on the EDGE list of unique and endangered mammals, in danger from hunting and habitat loss.

«We then used models to forecast future habitat loss in the national forests from expected temperature increases in the region,» says Andrew Dolloff, research fishery biologist for the Forest Service Southern Research Station and a co-author of the study.

A newly published research study that combines effects of warming temperatures from climate change with stream acidity projects average losses of around 10 percent of stream habitat for coldwater aquatic species for seven national forests in the southern Appalachians — and up to a 20 percent loss of habitat in the Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests in western North Carolina.

«This is the first time we've quantified the effect of habitat loss on biodiversity globally in such detail and we've found that across most of the world biodiversity loss is no longer within the safe limit suggested by ecologists» explained lead researcher, Dr Tim Newbold from UCL and previously at UNEP - WCMC.

The hihi is one of the world's most evolutionarily unique birds, classed as the only member of its own family, and were lost from New Zealand's North Island by around 1895 because of introduced predators such as rats, habitat loss due to farming and disease.

With an effective breeding population of about 2,500, numerous threats face this irreplaceable cat, ranging from illegal hunting to habitat loss and our rapidly changing climate.

One of the main challenges to the scientific community involved in biology conservation is to demonstrate that the loss and damage of habitats, ecological interactions and species generates a prejudice (present and future) that far exceeds the profits from the exploitation of natural resources and agricultural production.

We need to demonstrate the loss of habitats, ecological interactions and species generate bigger losses than profits from natural resources and agricultural production's exploitation.

We all know that the real danger to wildlife is from human activity in the form of destructive unchecked development and resulting loss of habitat, road kill, environmental toxins and misguided government programs.

According to Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the largest threat to birds is loss (or degradation) of habitat, which results from human development and agriculture.

«Although habitat loss is responsible for the original decline of the Lower Keys marsh rabbit, high mortality from cats may be the greatest current threat to the persistence of the Lower Keys marsh rabbit [4].»

While it's true that feral cats do pose a threat to endangered birds, the bigger threat comes from a disasterous loss of habitat caused by indiscriminate development.

«The National Park Service and Parks Conservancy have partnered with local botanic gardens to bring back Franciscan manzanitas, saved from other parts of San Francisco prior to habitat loss, to allow for «mating» with our remaining individuals.

In Costa Rica, Brenes - Mora has seized on the connection between large herbivores and carbon sequestration as a way to highlight the importance of preserving the tapirs, under threat from habitat loss as pineapple plantations expand and from traffic on the Pan-American Highway.

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).

These animals are vulnerable to impacts from chemical and noise pollution, fishing activity, global climate change and loss of habitat.

Small populations of island endemic taxa are often at risk of extirpation or extinction due to their reduced genetic diversity and increased susceptibility to genetic drift, disease, and climate change, especially in conjunction with over-exploitation, habitat loss, and predation or competition from invasive species [4 — 7].

Resonating from beneath the ground, this piece may conjure larger ideas such as the loss of silence, habitat, the impacts of industrialization, and the approaching sea.

Native birds remain subject to other threats, of course: feral cats, habitat degradation from free - ranging goats and donkeys, and outright habitat loss due to hotel and golf - course development.

The fact is that the Eastern N American Monarch is facing multiple threats to its existence, from loss of overwintering habitat in Mexico and reproductive habitat in the US, apparent threats from Bt corn, and population fluctuations.