Sentences with phrase «including loss of habitat»

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...

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Bats are highly threatened by a range of problems including habitat loss, conflict with humans and pesticide use.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«This could create substantial ecological problems in the Arctic, including habitat range changes and loss of biodiversity.»

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.

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.

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.

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.