Sentences with phrase «human encroachment»

Similar themes of human encroachment on nature are also found in Susan Graham's newest works.

Published Aug. 25 in the online journal PLOS ONE, the study explores options for mitigating the impact of human encroachment on five predators who cling to survival in isolated pockets of protected forest surrounded by a mosaic of roadways, unprotected forest, plantations and pastures.

The increasing rate of human encroachment into animal habitats is removing the old buffers, making contact with potentially infected animals more common.

The pronghorn is one of several endangered species whose habitat is severely impacted by human encroachment in the form of highways, access roads for increased border patrols, fences and other barriers.

As climate change converges with human encroachment in these mountains, the degradation of high Andean ecosystems is accelerating.

Logging, hunting, and other human encroachment on pristine environments all play a role, bringing people into contact with the microbes that lurk there.

In the last few generations, the combination of increasing human encroachment on wild ecosystems, and increasing human travel has led to acquisition and spread of diseases ranging from HIV to Lyme disease.

There is strong anthropogenic pressure on the Tapanuli orangutan due to conversion of pristine forest for mining, plans to build a hydro - electric dam, hunting, and general human encroachment.

With biodiversity facing threats from human encroachment and fossil fuel - driven climate change, the evolutionary escape routes that saved earlier mammal species have been largely closed off, she said.

Whenever a population of birds, insects, rodents etc... becomes endangered, city officials always choose to make the feral cats the scapegoat, in spite of the fact that it is usually human encroachment, various predatory species other than cats, hunters, climate change, disease or various other non - cat related causes that are to blame.

But the planks do not strictly critique human encroachment on nature so much as they examine the various interfaces between the two.

Graham's works again takes these themes to a broader level and addresses human encroachment on nature using decoration that poetically depict the eternal struggle between nature and technology.

Human encroachment threatens these habitats, but global warming and drought may be the death knell for sky islands.

Human encroachment carving into the wild terrain, which the lions need to dwell and hunt.

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.

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.

What the public missed Since attending a rally on Feb. 16 at Wekiwa Springs State Park, which was organized to emphasize the harmful effects of human encroachment in the area, I have felt compelled to express the impact the rally should have in eliminating some of the deteriorating conditions of the springs, rivers and aquifer.

Sea turtles are under enormous threat as they're caught as bycatch in fisheries, and lose their habitats to overfishing, pollution, and other human encroachment — including poaching and rampant sea turtle egg collection.

Tiger numbers in recent decades have plummeted because of human encroachment - with the loss of more than nine - tenths of their habitat - and poaching to supply a vibrant trade in tiger parts.

Because the Channel Islands are almost entirely owned and controlled by either the Catalina Island Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy, or the federal government, the fox has a chance to receive the protection it needs, including constant supervision by interested officials without the ongoing threat of human encroachment on its habitat.

Some scholars suspect that coalitionary killing is a response to human encroachment on chimp habitat.

Many climate relicts are threatened by small population size, ongoing environmental change in already stressful environments, invasions from species in adjacent non-relict communities, and human encroachment.

Human encroachment on leatherback nesting sites, in the form of beachfront construction and sand mining, is a major threat to the animals» continuation as a species.

Many species worldwide currently face the same pressures: changing climate, human encroachment, rising seas.

While the researchers found that most species are abundant and have relatively large distributions, they also noted that some have highly restricted distributions and may require conservation efforts in the not - so - distant future, as they lose their habitats due to climate change and human encroachment.

• Most likely to be negatively impacted by human encroachment.

Studying how ecosystems respond and adapt to changes can help us understand what will happen in the face of species extinction due to human encroachment and climate change.

Have students compare maps and document changes in land use and human encroachment on the land.

This increase is attributed to human encroachment into the alligators habitat.

They should be focusing on human encroachment, climate change, etc on bird habitat, not wild horses or cats.

But while the numbers of shark attacks have been climbing, the uptick has less to do with an increasing shark population, but rather attributable to human encroachment of their territory.

Unfortunately, Irrawaddy dolphins are still facing great risk of extinction due to human encroachment.

In a world where climate change, endangered species and human encroachment are increasing at an alarming rate, sustainability is fundamental to ensuring the future of the tourism industry let alone the future of our planet.

The insertion of these man - made elements articulates the artist's broader interest in the human encroachment on the natural environment.

A new study finds that human encroachment and climate change are on the verge of transforming half of the Amazon into less productive grasslands.

Pollution, human encroachment, and resource exploitation such as oil drilling only add to this dynamic.

Wild tiger numbers have plummeted because of human encroachment, the loss of more than nine - tenths of their habitat and poaching.

A photographer undertook an artistic and scientific odyssey that was inspired by an ancient migration now imperiled by 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.

And yet, there are few places facing as much risk of losing its flora and fauna to logging, pollution, human encroachment on habitat and other problems.

While it may be kind of cute that this tiny owl would try to make a home on a cruise ship of all places, human encroachment into its natural habitat is likely the reason it ended up vying to live in such an unnatural spot.

The clip seen below was recorded in the Cross River gorilla's dwindling habitat near Cameroon's border with Nigeria, a region hit hard by human encroachment and poaching.

The lens narrows on one resilient lioness in particular and her harrowing plight to survive and raise her cubs — displaced on the wet Okavango Delta (lions don't like water) due to human encroachment, prairie fires and competing lion prides.

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