Sentences with phrase «loss of habitat as»

The need for wildlife - friendly backyards is more crucial than ever before, owing to the rapid loss of habitat as suburban subdivisions (and their requisite big - box stores) continue gobbling wildlife habitat across Canada.

Using data from several sources on 162 terrestrial animals and plants unique (endemic) to the Albertine Rift, the researchers used ecological niche modeling (computer models) to determine the extent of habitat already lost due to agriculture, and to estimate the future loss of habitat as a result of climate change.

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As part of the mines continued operations the waste rock dump is to be expanded, resulting in the loss of 75.7 ha of habitat for three threatened species of Black Cockatoo.

Most of this loss is due to the destruction of habitats such as forests, especially those in the tropics.

Biodiversity loss, environmental degradation and severe impacts on ecosystem services — which refer to nature's support of wildlife habitat, crop pollination, soil health and other benefits — have not only accompanied conventional farming systems, but have often extended well beyond the boundaries of their fields, such as fertilizer runoff into rivers.

While overall habitat loss is a factor in these declines, research also indicates that even fields of sufficient size, if they are fragmented or interrupted by hedgerows or natural windbreaks, will be passed over by the birds, which may view the linear plantings as cover for predators.

Orangutan numbers on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo plummeted from 1999 to 2015, more as a result of human hunting than habitat loss, an international research team finds.

And those are now rivaling habitat loss and the exploitation of the Earth for economic growth as a source of declining species and pristine landscapes.

Some may see that loss as a negative but some of our most valued habitats have come about through forests being opened up to create grass and heathland.

Through climate change, habitat loss, poaching and other pressures, six of the eight living bear species are listed as «vulnerable.»

Unlike many bird species that are now extinct on the Earth's small islands, the Eastern Bluebird and the Hispaniolan Crossbill disappeared long before the first people arrived, uncoupling their extinction from human actions, such as the introduction of new predators and habitat loss for agricultural use.

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.

Regional studies suggest that marine heat waves may provoke «widespread loss of habitat - forming species such as kelps and corals, drive shifts in species distributions, alter the structure of communities and ecosystems, and have economic impacts on aquaculture and seafood industries through declines in important fishery species,» they note.

Australia does it too, and the European Union is about to publish recommendations for habitat banking as part of its strategy to halt species loss.

Even without avian diseases and climate change, the honeycreepers still face threats from habitat loss, introduced predators and competition with non-native birds (some of whom, such as the Japanese bush - warbler, are thriving on the plateau, the study finds).

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.

It cites a combination of factors such as pesticides, insecticides and habitat loss for the dramatic declines in bee numbers around the globe.

As global sea level rises, low - lying island nations must reckon how to cope not only with loss of agricultural acreage and increased vulnerability to storms, but also with reduced habitat for endemic species

«While a shark attack is important, it's not nearly as important as the fact that sharks are in decline around the world as a result of overfishing and habitat loss.»

The new report, from a panel of the interagency National Science and Technology Council, says that too little is known about endocrine disruptors to say where they rank compared to other environmental problems such as global warming and loss of species habitat.

Current species losses are just the tip of the iceberg as the effects of habitat loss take time to manifest

Threats to wildlife survival, such as habitat loss and climate change, tend to strike some species harder than others, and the threat of chytrid, a deadly amphibian fungus, appears to be no different.

Marine litter can act as an enabler of this loss: non-indigenous invasive species often use litter in the ocean as a habitat in which to hide, as a platform on which to settle or as a transport medium for moving into new territories.

The World Conservation Union ranks the loss of native habitat and the introduction of invasive species as the most crucial problems, but unchecked activities like fishing, hunting, and logging play a role — as does human - induced climate change.

And with sand mining comes disruption and loss of habitat in sand sources such as quarries, rivers, lakes and oceans.

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.

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This study adds to a growing body of evidence that the species will likely face large declines as loss of their habitat continues.»

The panel will look at an array of issues, including overfishing, biodiversity and habitat loss, compliance, and monitoring, as well as governance gaps.

«Certainly, as a result of that, it has resulted in a lot less loss and fragmentation of Wyoming's sagebrush habitat.»

The floral turnover may have affected terrestrial vertebrate communities as the loss of wetland habitat space and an increase in arid climate adapted plants may have dwindled the supply of palatable vegetation for herbivores.

Almost half of all threatened land mammals and a quarter of threatened birds may be feeling the pinch as a result of habitat loss and other changes

Then their numbers declined drastically as they became victims of hunting, and loss of prey and habitat, and, starting in the late 1940s, use of the pesticide DDT — which thinned the eagles eggshells and prevented hatching.

But globally, long - tongued bumblebees are declining, says Cameron, as are many bees, in part because of climate change, pesticide use, and habitat loss.

• More effective management and protection of large areas outside of formally protected areas; • Increased law enforcement combined with improved legal frameworks and stiffer sanctions for poachers; • Coordination across all sectors on land use and protection of natural resources with a priority on conserving great ape populations; • Conservation advocacy for wildlife and law enforcement to effect behavior change; • An enhanced understanding of diseases such as Ebola to guide conservation actions; • Monitoring of great ape abundance and distribution, habitat loss, and illegal activities.

Overfishing, pollution, climate change and destruction of habitats like coral reefs are all putting our seas in trouble but academics fear the risk is not being taken as seriously as concerns for the loss of animals and plants which live on land.

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.

According to Joseph P. Gill, Secretary of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, impacts associated with sea level rise are already being seen along Maryland's coast, such as the documented loss of islands within the Chesapeake Bay, as well as visible changes to wetland habitats all along Maryland's low - lying eastern shore.

«NASA backed us on research related to the biodiversity and ecology of Arctic marine mammals, as well as the development of metrics for the loss of sea ice, their habitat.»

Today, primary threats are habitat loss and fragmentation as a result of human development.

On otherwise barren mudflats, habitat - forming invasive species such as nonnative seaweed can offset the loss of foundation species and provide vital ecosystem services, such as storm protection and food production, on which nearly half the human population depends.

Until recently, they were threatened mainly by loss of their habitat, as land was converted to agriculture.

Such habitat losses will likely increase, as the country's current population of about 22 million is projected to more than double by 2050.

And global warming is so rapid — as fast as any warming in the past 65 million years — that species already under pressure from habitat loss and overexploitation are at greater risk of extinction.

The big cats, also known as pumas or mountain lions, once ranged all the way to the East Coast, but were exterminated by hunting and habitat loss through much of their North American range.

The establishment of the new national monument is key to saving the monk seals, as habitat loss is currently their chief threat, given that hunting is no longer allowed.

The wild pet trade may surpass habitat loss as a factor in the growing silence of the natural world

A new global analysis of forest habitat loss and wildlife extinction risk published July 19 in the journal Nature shows that species most at risk live in areas just beginning to see the impacts of human activities such as hunting, mining, logging and ranching.

The hihi is one of the world's most evolutionarily unique birds, classed as the only member of its own family, and were lost from New Zealand's North Island by around 1895 because of introduced predators such as rats, habitat loss due to farming and disease.

Loss of habitats, and contact with parasites and neonicotinoids all have been cited as possible factors.