Sentences with phrase «loss of habitat caused»

While it's true that feral cats do pose a threat to endangered birds, the bigger threat comes from a disasterous loss of habitat caused by indiscriminate development.

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Worldwide, habitat destruction is the leading cause of bird population declines and loss of biodiversity.

Their findings indicated, simply, that at a minimum, mining «would cause the loss of spawning and rearing habitat for multiple salmoniods.»

The comparison of orangutan and habitat losses suggests that land clearance caused the most dramatic rates of decline.

But then it admits that development will cause «the loss of all suitable nightingale habitat».

Invaders are now the second-most important cause of global biodiversity loss after habitat destruction, and the more we move about, the more they spread.

«The No. 1 cause of extinction of organisms is loss of habitat,» he said.

The greatest cause of species extinction is loss of habitat.

However, the ongoing loss of marsh habitat could cause Mottled Ducks to move into urban and suburban areas, where they will be more likely to encounter resident Mallards.

«This demonstrates that while wood thrushes are sensitive to breeding forest fragmentation, it is not the main cause of declines, rather the loss and / or degradation of habitat in the winter range in Central America is the culprit,» Taylor said.

«The loss of key habitat is causing significant conservation challenges for Sumatra — and in particular for this critically endangered species.»

«So while it is possible that reduced accessibility of foraging habitat might cause loss of northern colonies in the future, there is no evidence that we have yet reached a tipping point at which this occurs.»

In the Caribbean, unsustainable land management practices are causing soil degradation and damage of natural habitats, contributing to the loss of biodiversity and reduction of natural buffers to droughts and floods.

However, the real cause for the decline in the bird population is the loss of habitat, urbanization, pollution and environmental degradation.

The decline in songbird populations is caused by loss of habitat.

Cory Smith, director of companion animal public policy at the Humane Society of the United States, said habitat loss and other human - related causes affect bird and wildlife populations.

Numerous studies have shown that the true causes of population declines are factors such as habitat loss, pollution, hunting, and drought.

... «However, it is not the loss of habitat that is causing the current cat crisis in the Cairngorms.

The «habitat loss» that is killing primates is mostly from tropical deforestation, which also causes 20 percent of the total carbon dioxide emissions contributing to climate change.

Climate Change Position of the Saint Louis Zoo: «Scientific consensus holds that climate change is interrupting natural cycles, causing habitat loss and prompting more extreme weather patterns.

Land use and land cover (LULC) change causes biodiversity decline through loss, alteration, and fragmentation of habitats.

And fires cause other environmental concerns such as the release of large amounts of ash, destruction of topsoil and damage to wildlife and habitat — not to mention loss of human life and damage to people's homes.

Widespread upscaling of organic agriculture would cause additional loss of natural habitats and also entail output price increases, making food less affordable for poor consumers in developing countries.

The cause is a combination of stresses: crops treated with harmful chemicals, especially those pre-treated with neonicotinoids; loss of natural habitats, like flowering meadows where bees once foraged for nutritious diets; and exposure to parasites and diseases.

Researchers estimate species are being lost at a rate at least 100 times faster than historical levels, with habitat loss, over-hunting and climate change just a few of the many human - caused drivers behind the event.

In recent years, intense hurricanes have caused extensive coastal habitat damage and loss in the Gulf of Mexico.

Meanwhile, the abandonment of scientific perspective by some Alarmists in order to join the crusade to climate Jerusalem gives tacit permission to continue to those who are causing the real damage via habitat loss, pollution, lax procedures that allow invasive species to be introduced inappropriately, and over-hunting.

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.

Extinctions are a hallmark of human - caused stress on the natural world, a tragic proof of habitat loss, overexploitation, and pollution.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) anticipates that changes to land cover and biodiversity caused by climate change, could force Indigenous people to «alter their traditional ecosystem management systems» and, in the extreme, «eventually lead to a loss of their traditional habitats and along with it their cultural heritage».