Yet, according to a new study released by the Montreal - based North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, pollution, hunting, and
loss of habitat still threaten at least 235 plants and animals.
Not exact matches
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).
«Therefore, this study adds important new evidence on the safety
of neonicotinoid use, but we
still can not exclude the impact
of other pesticides and
habitat loss on the current bee declines.
The biggest problem that confronts Ursus maritimus is
still climate change,
loss of habitat and a more precarious food supply.
Even so there would
still need to be a massive deployment
of renewables, potentially involving substantial cost, spoiling
of pretty rural views,
habitat loss in Severn estuary etc etc
Further
still, the acknowledgment
of our primate cousins as sentient beings could add some much - need impetus to global conservation efforts as a profound emotional toll on the animals themselves is counted among the tragedies resulting from poaching and
habitat loss.