Sentences with phrase «habitat degradation in»

[2] Active conservation is limited to controlling the numbers of introduced sheep and pigs, which have caused habitat degradation in the past.

This could help avoid their own local extinction due to ever - increasing habitat degradation in their original range, could provide potentially robust stock for denuded areas, and assist in shortening the time needed for adaptation of stocks yet naïve to such extremes.

The funds have been awarded to municipalities and Soil and Water Conservation districts to address major sources of water pollution and habitat degradation in dozens of urban, suburban and rural communities.

Not exact matches

Proponents of shade cultivation say environmental problems such as deforestation, pesticide pollution, habitat destruction, and soil and water degradation are the side effects of the practices employed in sun cultivation.

In general, the palm oil industry has been linked to deforestation, habitat degradation, climate change, animal cruelty and indigenous rights abuses as the land and forests must be cleared for development of plantations.

Fishing, boat traffic and habitat degradation all may negatively affect mantas in less remote lagoons.»

Ruedas said it could also lead to conservation efforts in Suriname, where environmental degradation is threatening the rabbit's habitat.

Particularly in Africa and the Middle East, high fertility rates are leading to profound local environmental pressures - water stress, land degradation, over-hunting and fishing, falling farm sizes, deforestation and other habitat destruction - thereby worsening the grave economic challenges these countries face.

«This demonstrates that while wood thrushes are sensitive to breeding forest fragmentation, it is not the main cause of declines, rather the loss and / or degradation of habitat in the winter range in Central America is the culprit,» Taylor said.

To better understand the interacting effects of habitat degradation and climate on bird populations, researchers from the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW), Klamath Bird Observatory, and Costa Rica Bird Observatories spent 12 years studying the White - collared Manakin, a fruit - eating tropical bird, in mature and young forests along the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.

In the Caribbean, unsustainable land management practices are causing soil degradation and damage of natural habitats, contributing to the loss of biodiversity and reduction of natural buffers to droughts and floods.

Fisheries and marine resource management with emphasis in gear technology, bycatch, discards, hook and release mortality, socioeconomics, and habitat degradation as well as fisheries management issues and policies.

The loss of milkweed plants due to extensive herbicide use and changes in farming practices, such as the widespread adoption of herbicide - resistant crops, has been identified as a major contributing factor of monarch's decline in the eastern U.S. Disease, climate change, widespread insecticide use, and loss or degradation of nectar - rich habitat may also be contributing to declines.

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

The palm oil industry in SE Asia is linked to major issues such as deforestation, habitat degradation, climate change, animal cruelty and indigenous rights abuses in the SE Asia, as the land and forests must be cleared for the development of the oil palm plantations.

Under the direction of teacher LeAnn Hodges, for instance, third graders at John C. Fremont Elementary School addressed the nearby San Joaquin River's decline in trout population due to degradation of habitat.

However, the real cause for the decline in the bird population is the loss of habitat, urbanization, pollution and environmental degradation.

In a series of cases subsequent to Palila, [FN96] plaintiffs with economic interests dependant on the forestry industry challenged the FWS» definition of harm, primarily the inclusion of habitat modification and degradation.

We currently care for more than 40 African penguins in our Cold Water Quest gallery, but did you know their counterparts in the wild are facing harmful challenges such as oil spills, food shortages and habitat degradation?

We work on the water and in the communities along the Santa Barbara Channel to monitor water quality, restore aquatic ecosystems, advocate for clean water, enforce environmental laws, and educate and engage citizens in implementing solutions to water pollution and aquatic habitat degradation.

It has shown through in numerous ways like climate change, pesticide drift, land degradation, air pollution, and habitat destruction.

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.

For years I have pressed my local governments to consider the very real limits to growth, with little success notwithstanding the clear degradation of the natural habitat and human quality of life in the region.

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.

He made a presentation in this meeting, where he cited the main issues facing Boracay: biodiversity loss, resource overexploitation, climate variability, habitat degradation, and declining water quality.

Degradation of these habitats - as a result of drainage, conversion and reclamation - can result in substantial and ongoing emissions of greenhouse gases.

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.

The causes of the declines in biodiversity are land clearing, land salinisation, land degradation, habitat fragmentation, overgrazing, exotic weeds, feral animals, rivers that have been pushed past their points of equilibrium and changed fire regimes.

They are being subjected to habitat degradation; excessive nutrient loading, resulting in harmful algal blooms; fallout from aerosol contaminants; and emergent diseases.

«GLACIER delegates need to realize that global warming can harm whales in a variety of ways beyond habitat degradation,» said Susan Millward, executive director of the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI).

Growing and processing sugar is the first step of making rum — and it's also one of the most environmentally destructive — resulting in soil degradation and erosion, the overuse and pollution of local water resources, the spread of pesticides and fertilizers, emissions of greenhouse gases, and habitat destruction.

Though it's likely to be lost in the bombast and disappointment around a messy framework, there may be at least one tangible result from the Copenhagen summit: REDD, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, is essentially a mechanism to pay developing countries to keep their trees standing, thereby maintaining habitats and preventing the release of carbon that happens through deforestation.

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.