Sentences with phrase «loss of its habitat due»

However, the area suffers a high loss of habitat due to deforestation for more arable and pasture land.

Causeways and other roads that bisect wetlands alter natural habitats by providing avenues by which invasive plants species can colonize wetlands and nesting areas, altering natural hydrology of wetland systems, altering storm water runoff and drainage, providing avenues for road salts and pollutants and the direct loss of habitat due to land - clearing and paving.

«To put that in perspective, that area is one - tenth the size of the home range of a Bornean elephant endangered partially by loss of its habitat due to deforestation.»

* Human impact: Loss of habitat due to development, radio / TV / cellular phone towers, high - rise glass buildings, power lines, wind turbines, wetland destruction to name a few have had the greatest impact on the decline of native species around the world.

Earlier in the year we pointed out that butterflies are being hit from two angles — not just a loss of habitat due to human development and agriculture, but also the effects of climate change.

Like many species living on the island of Borneo, Miller's grizzled langurs have been threatened for decades from poaching and the loss of their habitat due to slash and burn agriculture.

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

The DSWT organization fosters baby elephants who have been separated from their mothers due to poaching or from the loss of their natural habitat due to human conflict, drought or deforestation.

The ferrets survive on a diet of mostly prairie dogs and had nearly gone extinct in the 1970s due to centuries of habitat loss, prey declines and plague.

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.

Tigers are endangered, largely due to habitat loss, hunting and overhunting of prey species.

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.

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.

But just like all wild plant species, these «crop wild relatives» (CWR) are also at risk of decline and extinction due to habitat loss, pollution, and climate change.

As well as poaching, loss of its forest habitat due to commercial and illegal logging is also a major threat to the big cat.

The report, compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN), shows that well over half the threats to tree species arise from loss of habitat, due to agriculture or human settlement.

The spotted hyena is doing well enough to be considered of «Least Concern» by IUCN, but its population is also declining, primarily due to habitat loss.

Wild bee populations in parts of the United States are declining, largely due to habitat loss in areas with intense farming.

«The lesser horseshoe bat is almost gone, mostly due to loss of habitat,» says Fairon, although it was the most common species 30 years ago.

Most of these birds are already in trouble due to habitat loss.

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.

This is a map of the vulnerability of ecosystems to biome shifts due to climate change and of habitat loss due to land cover change.

Colla noted that The International Union for Conservation of Nature recently assessed North American bumblebees and found that one quarter to one third of the species are at risk of extinction due to climate change and other factors such as habitat loss and disease.

The loss of breeding habitat, especially milkweed, due to the increased use of genetically modified herbicide - resistant crops, is an important factor influencing the decline of monarchs in the eastern United States.

Assuming the greatest pace of economic development with little regard for the environment, the study predicted that 1,101 species would be lost over the next century due to habitat loss alone, while just 64 would be lost to climate change alone.

The lower land - use efficiency of organic systems means that «large - scale conversion to organic would likely require bringing more natural habitats into agricultural production,» with a potentially severe impact on global biodiversity due to the loss of rainforests and other currently wild areas.

This is due to loss of habitat.

The loss of milkweed plants due to extensive herbicide use and changes in farming practices, such as the widespread adoption of herbicide - resistant crops, has been identified as a major contributing factor of monarch's decline in the eastern U.S. Disease, climate change, widespread insecticide use, and loss or degradation of nectar - rich habitat may also be contributing to declines.

«It adds to the stress of habitat loss due to human developments.

Additionally, approximately one - third of all parrot species are threatened with extinction due to habitat loss and the international pet trade, she says.

Due to the rapid loss of habitat by development, many coyotes, bobcats, and mountain lions have found themselves forced to cohabit with humans.

They're becoming extremely rare these days and are sadly declining quickly due to their loss of habitat.

Small populations of island endemic taxa are often at risk of extirpation or extinction due to their reduced genetic diversity and increased susceptibility to genetic drift, disease, and climate change, especially in conjunction with over-exploitation, habitat loss, and predation or competition from invasive species [4 — 7].

Native birds remain subject to other threats, of course: feral cats, habitat degradation from free - ranging goats and donkeys, and outright habitat loss due to hotel and golf - course development.

The key danger to polar bears is malnutrition or starvation due to habitat loss: Polar bears hunt seals from a platform of sea ice.

A new report from Partners in Flight shows that about 17 % of North American land bird species (148 of 882 species) are facing rapid declines, due not in small part due to habitat loss in their winter

But they are becoming endangered due to the loss of their natural habitats.

More specifically, changes in our climate may affect severe weather events, agricultural productivity, risk of vector - borne infectious diseases, and extinctions of higher level species due to loss of habitat.

IUCN also lists climate change, the use of insecticides (like neonicotinoids) and habitat loss due to urbanisation as critical factors in the European bumblebee decline.

A zoologist by trade, Gazaryan was studying bats in the unique forests of Krasnodar region when he discovered that their numbers were falling due to habitat loss from development and government corruption:

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.

But whatever it's called, it's clear that palm oil production is leading to massive deforestation due to carbon - emitting activities like slashing and burning the forest to make way for palm plantations, as well as habitat loss for a wide variety of species like orangutans, tigers, rhinoceros, and elephants.

As it turns out, for the DOD to continue weapons practice on the base without interruption, it'd have to do its damnedest to make sure the fluttering little butterflies make a comeback.According to biologists, checkerspot butterflies may have seen their populations plummet to near - extinction due to habitat loss, but ironically the fragile insects have found safe haven in the unlikeliest of places, forming one of their largest colonies on the firing range of the military base.

Due to high deforestation rates, the nation ranks among the top tier of greenhouse gas emitters — not to mention the effect all this habitat loss has on animals.

By utilizing remotely - sensed mangrove forest cover change data, loss of soil carbon due to mangrove habitat loss between 2000 and 2015 was 30 — 122 Tg C with > 75 % of this loss attributable to Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar.»

Now, due to habitat loss and other threats, there are only around 2,500 individuals of this endangered species remaining in Kenya and less than 150 individuals in southern Ethiopia.

«Until recently, it was widely assumed that coral would bleach and die off worldwide as the oceans warm due to climate change,» explained Jessica Carilli, a coral researcher at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, «this would have very serious consequences, as loss of live coral — already observed in parts of the world — directly reduces fish habitats and the shoreline protection reefs provide from storms.»

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.

The population is estimated at less than 10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline of more than 10 % over the next 30 years, mostly due to habitat loss and poaching.

A major problem for flowers, of course, is the distressing decline of pollinators across the globe due to habitat loss, biodiversity loss, and the hiking up of global temperatures.