Primary threats in our state
include habitat loss and traffic - related highway mortality.
Primary threats
include habitat loss and traffic - related highway mortality.
Bats are highly threatened by a range of problems
including habitat loss, conflict with humans and pesticide use.
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.
Then Westerners arrived and bird populations started to disappear more quickly due to a combination of threats,
including habitat loss, introduction of invasive species and the arrival of diseases such as avian malaria.
Researchers assess the risk of species extinction with conservation models that combine factors that drive down populations —
including habitat loss, hunting and overfishing — with the probability of chance disasters affecting the group.
In many cases, the declines probably have multiple causes,
including habitat loss, pollution, and climate change.
However, there's a whole army of other factors that we need to be more concerned about than scientific collecting —
including habitat loss, pathogens, human activities and climate change.
While feral honey bee populations may be healthy in many parts of the world, the researchers note that the health of managed honey bee colonies is threatened by a host of factors
including habitat loss, pesticides, pathogens, parasites and climate change.
Not exact matches
Common threats
include:
loss of nesting and roosting sites,
habitat fragmentation by conversion or destruction of vegetation,
habitat fragmentation by excessive exposure of nectar plants to herbicides and pollinators to pesticides, over-hunting, disruption of nectar corridors required by migratory pollinators, and competition by invasive species65.
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.
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.
The plan, released yesterday, also recommends numerous measures to address growing concerns about the threat that bees, birds, butterflies, and other pollinators face from multiple factors,
including pathogens, pesticides, climate change, and
habitat loss.
WCS Russia Program Director Dale Miquelle stated that «Like many large carnivores, tigers face an array of serious threats throughout their range,
including poaching (of tigers themselves and of their prey),
habitat loss, and conflict with local people.
The analysis identifies
habitat loss and hunting as the biggest reasons behind the decline of land mammals; marine species face additional threats,
including pollution and accidental death in fishing nets.
The panel will look at an array of issues,
including overfishing, biodiversity and
habitat loss, compliance, and monitoring, as well as governance gaps.
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.
Loon surveyors tell us they observe many activities that are detrimental to loons
including: disturbance of nesting sites (as a result of boats, canoes, jet skiis, and water level changes); discarding of entangling debris (fishing lines and domestic garbage); inadvertently attracting and supporting nest predators (raccoons, skunks, and gulls); and displacement of loons through
habitat loss.
Direct threats also
included changes such as coral bleaching, shifting animal and plant life cycles and distributions, and
habitat loss from sea level rise.
These
include being poached for their skin, bones and other body parts, involvement in conflict with people, a depleted prey base, and
habitat loss.
«This could create substantial ecological problems in the Arctic,
including habitat range changes and
loss of biodiversity.»
This topic has become particularly important as many environmental disruptions
including climate change,
habitat loss and species introductions act by radically altering species distributions.
«The primary threat to the Key Largo woodrat,» explains a 1999 USFWS report (which, admittedly,
includes feral cats among the «other threats associated with human encroachment»), «is
habitat loss and fragmentation caused by increasing urbanization.»
DENVER / March 17, 2017 — Endangered San Joaquin kit foxes face many threats to their survival,
including loss of
habitat and competition with non-native species such...
However, the mountain and the agencies that protect it face mounting challenges
including biodiversity and
habitat loss, the effects of climate change, inadequate wayfinding, trail maintenance, limited amenities, and programs that are at or near capacity.
These destructive and unsustainable practices lead to the
loss of critical
habitats including sea grass, backreef flats and mangroves.
You can blame
habitat loss and degradation,
including deforestation or wetland drainage, for posing the main threats to terrestrial mammals, followed by pollution and overharvesting.
The declines are attributed by researchers to a combination of factors
including disease, low genetic diversity in bee populations,
habitat loss and change, and the use of pesticides.
According to the United Nations, as much as 40 percent of the world oceans are heavily affected by human activities,
including pollution, depleted fisheries, and
loss of coastal
habitats.
It illustrates the pace of environmental change,
including land - use change, urban growth, degradation of marine and coastal areas, altered hydrology and shrinking water bodies,
loss of
habitats and the impacts of climate change.
Tar Sands and Unconventional Fossil Fuels In a previous post «Silence Is Deadly» I wrote, «The environmental impacts of tar sands development
include: irreversible effects on biodiversity and the natural environment, reduced water quality, destruction of fragile pristine Boreal forest and associated wetlands, aquatic and watershed mismanagement,
habitat fragmentation,
habitat loss, disruption to life cycles of endemic wildlife particularly bird and caribou migration, fish deformities and negative impacts on the human health in downstream communities.»
Expected impacts on Australia of warming at this level
include: the shut - down of the Murray - Darling river system; disappearance of Kakadu's freshwater wetlands under rising seas;
loss of most of the core
habitat of vertebrate species; a 40 + per cent decline in livestock carrying capacity; trebling of
Detrimental effects
include loss of polar bear
habitat and increased mobile ice hazards to shipping.
Throughout their life cycle, building materials are responsible for many adverse environmental issues,
including personal illness,
habitat and species
loss, pollution, and resource depletion.
Other threats to African elephants
include the
loss and degradation of
habitat, conflict with humans and
habitat loss.
A wide range of human activities affect marine biodiversity both in direct ways, such as exploitation by fisheries,
habitat loss due to dredging, filling, and other construction influences, fishing gear impacts, and pollution, and in less direct ways,
including effects of global change resulting in acidification, warmer waters, and coastal inundation.
This shocking number considers factors like
habitat loss but also
includes approximations of the planet's total number of species, known and unknown.
With hope waning that we can limit climate change to an average increase of 2 degrees centigrade, global warming threatens many species (
including our own) with
loss of
habitat, disastrous weather events, and evolving illnesses.
For a start, not once did the program suggest that humans were causing global warming, although we definitely are responsible for some of the other evils afflicting Arctic populations,
including toxic pollution and
habitat loss, and we may be contributing, slightly, to warming that would otherwise be occurring anyway.
East African Crowned cranes, a subspecies of the Grey Crowned cranes, are endangered due to
habitat loss and degradation from human activities
including due pesticide use, overgrazing by livestock, drainage of their wetland breeding areas and drought.
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.