Sentences with phrase «habitat destruction»

Urban development and the stresses of habitat destruction and introduced species have pushed a number of the region's plants to the brink of extinction.

It is threatened by habitat destruction and exotic species.

Today's seas continue to face these threats, as well as from habitat destruction, warming and ocean acidification.

The virus «emerges» when human activity, such as habitat destruction, causes host - human contact.

As with all energy development, wind can adversely affect wildlife, whether through habitat destruction or direct collisions.

This time the warming is more rapid, though, and comes with the added challenge of human - driven habitat destruction, illegal hunting and pollution.

That means we must address the true threats to all species: human - lead activities like habitat destruction and pollution.

They also fear that the strategy, which the energy industry has helped fund, will undermine efforts to curb habitat destruction.

Cats may contribute to their decline, though habitat destruction; air - and light - pollution, and climate change seem to be more likely factors.

But really habitat destruction is a far more significant problem.

A cheap clean renewable power source still allows population increase & the associated habitat destruction that entails.

We have to find a compromise and cut down the amount of habitat destruction.

They also included what threats the species had been facing, such as habitat destruction or hunting.

This combination - a high concentration of individuals in a only few small sites - makes the possibility of habitat destruction in Mexico very serious.

The baiji dolphin has also been rendered extinct by a combination of overfishing and habitat destruction caused by human activity.

We were very proud of that, but then what people are forgetting is that [coping with habitat destruction in a region like this] is a very long - term process.

Horned Guan is clasified as Endanger because habitat destruction and hunting are threatening the small population.

Converting urban land to green space also increases biodiversity, improves air quality and prevents habitat destruction when the countryside is converted to cropland.

Chytrid fungus is to blame for devastating many populations, although other threats include habitat destruction, UV radiation and parasites.

The list is long and familiar: too much carbon dioxide warming the atmosphere and acidifying the ocean; too much land being cleared, leading to deforestation and desertification; overfishing causing crashes in one stock after another; and habitat destruction reducing biodiversity so drastically that some consider a sixth mass extinction to be under way.

Not all species is negatively affected by habitat destruction -LSB-...]

In terms of bird welfare, 67 % of Gatineau residents think habitat destruction is the worst threat to birds, with pesticide exposure coming in second at 46 %, and cats in third place at 33 %.

In the next 35 years, Voigt's team calculates that further habitat destruction alone will lead to the loss of around 45,000 more of these apes.

For example, neonicotinoid pesticides, which may have some detrimental effect on bees, are banned, while habitat destruction, which has clear detrimental effects, is not.

Invaders are now the second-most important cause of global biodiversity loss after habitat destruction, and the more we move about, the more they spread.

But the gradually climbing zigzag line on Keeling's chart of the CO 2 concentration above Mauna Loa or statistics on habitat destruction are not.

«Humans already interfere - massively - with Nature in diverse ways ranging from uncontrolled habitat destruction to «rewilding», big - cat captive breeding programs, the eradication of blindness - causing parasitic worms, and so forth,» added Pearce.

Something else that remains unknown about true toads, true frogs and all the other anurans: how they will fare against increasing habitat destruction and climate change.

But to read and «feel», day after day after day so much of what is going wrong in terms of species extinction and non human habitat destruction, the result of our doing, well?

With the taut suspense of a spy novel, Voigt paints a vivid world of murder, black market deals and habitat destruction surrounding a fish that's considered, ironically, to be a good - luck charm.

The logic of sprawl saw cities eat up a larger and larger share of the surrounding real estate, fueling habitat destruction, smog from tailpipe emissions, runoff from impermeable pavement and other environmental ills.

In addition to that, in the big scheme of Indonesia, where there seems to be such rapid habitat destruction, there is a new zoo strategy, which here in Australia we're taking very seriously.

«Because of large - scale human - caused habitat destruction occurring worldwide, it is essential to create collections of organisms now and use modern methods of systematics and ecology to understand the history of life on earth, while we still can.

«Popular sungazer lizards under threat from poaching: Poaching, habitat destruction put this unique and highly vulnerable species under pressure to survive.»

Yet Idaho wildlife officials say habitat destruction and fragmentation linked to human activities are the greatest threats to the sage - grouse, with predation ranking 12 among 19 factors that contribute to the bird's decline.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: What can be done to curtail habitat destruction in countries like Indonesia?

The finding that inundated nests are more vulnerable is worrisome because climate change and continued habitat destruction will make it more likely that sea turtles end up depositing eggs in these less suitable spots.

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.

«Preventing habitat destruction becomes even more desperately important now because we need not just one group, but many, to understand how humans became so cultural.»

Furthermore, the researchers suspect that even if habitat destruction were to halt in these areas, the remaining large animal species would have little chance of maintaining viable populations beyond the next few decades.

To combat habitat destruction, the primary threat to biodiversity, «we need a lot more parks and reserves, and we need them to be much bigger,» said Wilson, who currently serves as university research professor emeritus at Harvard University.

Here in Queensland, about five hours west of us, we have the greatest habitat destruction in Australia occurring there right now.

STEVE: The big problem that a lot of third - world nations have [with habitat destruction] is currently incurable.

Zoologist Gordon Rodda of the U.S. Geological Survey in Fort Collins, Colorado, agrees, pointing out that the study is «one more line of evidence that habitat destruction interacts with the introduced species, and the combination is devastating.»