Sentences with phrase «high loss of habitat»

However, the area suffers a high loss of habitat due to deforestation for more arable and pasture land.

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He is also a commissioner for the Global Ocean Commission, whose mandate is to formulate politically and technically feasible short -, medium - and long - term recommendations to address four key issues facing the high seas: overfishing, large - scale loss of habitat and biodiversity, the lack of effective management and enforcement, and deficiencies in high seas governance.

Although considered one of the most successful predators on Earth due to the high kill - rate their cooperative hunting achieves, African wild dog populations are declining due to pressures including habitat loss and human - wildlife conflict.

The loss of habitats is the greatest threat to the endangered orangutans, and now a new study says their existence could be further jeopardized if conservation efforts don't include reintroducing these great apes into natural environments with enough high - energy food for them to survive.

With the current human population growth, these plants can not sustain such high levels of collection and habitat loss.»

They found that biodiversity hotspots — those that have seen habitat loss in the past but have a lot of species only found in that area — are threatened, showing high levels of biodiversity decline.

* Human impact: Loss of habitat due to development, radio / TV / cellular phone towers, high - rise glass buildings, power lines, wind turbines, wetland destruction to name a few have had the greatest impact on the decline of native species around the world.

«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].»

The authors of a new paper in Nature, «Species — area relationships always overestimate extinction rates from habitat loss,» claim to have mathematical proof showing results of such calculations, using the «species to area curve,» are uniformly too high.

The US government works on the basis of $ 37 in social costs per tonne emitted, but two US scientists proposed that the true cost in future health and habitat losses was probably six times higher.

Marine life is under severe threat from global warming, pollution and habitat loss, with a high risk of «major extinctions» according to a panel of experts.

More specifically, changes in our climate may affect severe weather events, agricultural productivity, risk of vector - borne infectious diseases, and extinctions of higher level species due to loss of habitat.

The most significant threats to arctic marine mammals comprise loss of sea ice habitat and its associated highly productive food web along with the increase in anthropogenic activities at high latitudes (Ragen et al. 2008).

Due to high deforestation rates, the nation ranks among the top tier of greenhouse gas emitters — not to mention the effect all this habitat loss has on animals.