After losing 80 % of the world's natural and
intact forest habitats, mostly to agriculture, few people stop to wonder how Earth can accommodate these additional demands upon plants» primary productivity and still produce food, preserve wild places and maintain ecosystems required to maintain a habitable Earth.
Not exact matches
We are helping to preserve crucial
habitat for thousands of distinct plants and animals that need large
intact tracts of
forest to survive.
That they are endangered in many places in Central America, but Belize has the healthiest population of jaguars in the region because Belize has so much
intact forest; there is a
habitat for them.
To make matters worse,
intact habitat has been shrinking as farming and other human activities have fragmented
forests and other natural areas.
«These species were highly sensitive to the changing
habitat and therefore more likely to disappear in landscapes that encompass only a small proportion of
intact forest.»
It's one of the largest
intact forest ecosystems left on Earth; it's actually only three or four places that have these large unfragmented
habitats left and because of that it holds some of the largest populations of mammals and birds — some of the largest populations of wolves, for example, in, caribou as well as, we estimate one to three billion birds that nest there every year and that's some of the birds that are actually stopping off at Central Park.
The vast magnificent savanna,
forests, wooded savannas, and deep rivers
habitats remain largely
intact with potential for recovery of wildlife populations if urgent and robust conservation security measures are taken in this strategic area, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), ECOFAUNE + / AGRECO, and the Ministry of Environment of Central African Republic said in a report issued today.
Furthermore, when researchers analyzed patterns of remaining
forest, they found a global loss of interior
forest — core areas that, when
intact, maintain critical
habitat and ecological functions.
However, the question the researchers asked was this: Should conservation efforts be focused on areas where
forest habitats have already been lost and species might be reaching a threshold, or on
forests that are largely
intact and are only just beginning to be affected by development?
An
intact forest cycles nutrients, regulates climate, stabilizes soil, treats waste, provides
habitat, and offers opportunities for recreation.