Sentences with phrase «of loss of habitat»

Palm oil production, not global warming, in Indonesia and Malaysia is going to make large mammals extinct The amount of loss of habitat is asonishing

They now are declining, or soon will be declining because of loss of habitat.

Science, economics, and timely political history are intertwined in this precise chronological record of a bird that has become extinct as a result of the loss of habitat.

Not exact matches

Based on the available information, the EPA in 2014 determined the mine would result in a complete and irreversible loss of fish habitats in some areas of the bay.

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.

The goal or outcome of the plan is to ensure that there is, at a minimum, no net loss of caribou habitat from the project in the West Side Athabasca Range.

One manifestation of this is the AER's setting of the goal of no net loss of caribou habitat in the relevant range.

He is also a commissioner for the Global Ocean Commission, whose mandate is to formulate politically and technically feasible short -, medium - and long - term recommendations to address four key issues facing the high seas: overfishing, large - scale loss of habitat and biodiversity, the lack of effective management and enforcement, and deficiencies in high seas governance.

It can not solve the problem of habitat loss.

«The one process ongoing in the 1980s that will take millions of years to correct,» Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson has warned, «is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.

To care chiefly about individual animals when the loss of habitat threatens whole species seems a misdirection of primary energy.

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

Since most of the loss of species is a consequence of destruction of habitats it is clear that the prevention of further losses means that this sort of activity has to be severely restricted.

One day everybody will wake up to the cruelty and habitat loss of the voiceless.

, loss of biodiversity, habitat degradation, species endangerment, etc..

The impact of one loss or disturbance may not be visible until the rate of change and impact on diversity threatens the habitat of a particular species so much that their food source, shelter, health or safety disappears.

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

In 2017, The New York Times reported that the Bornean orangutan's population had declined by more than 80 percent in the last 75 years largely because of habitat loss.

At a time when the conversation around palm oil centres on deforestation, fires and habitat loss — and global demand shows no signs of abating — several companies have come together to create Palm Done Right, a new standard for ethical palm oil production...

Bats are highly threatened by a range of problems including habitat loss, conflict with humans and pesticide use.

Common threats include: loss of nesting and roosting sites, habitat fragmentation by conversion or destruction of vegetation, habitat fragmentation by excessive exposure of nectar plants to herbicides and pollinators to pesticides, over-hunting, disruption of nectar corridors required by migratory pollinators, and competition by invasive species65.

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.

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.

Loss of essential grassland habitat, increased use of toxic pesticides, reduced availability of nesting grounds, disease, and a changing climate with extreme weather patterns have all played a role in their decline.

A role - play activity will bring understanding of the environmental is & shy; sues of fragmentation and habitat loss.

Careful site selection for renewable facilities of all types is important to minimize the loss and fragmentation of wildlife habitat and forests that sequester carbon.

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.

Ghana has an array of wildlife that can be seen at zoos and national parks in Ghana, although populations have been drastically reduced by habitat loss and poaching.

These projects include work to protect water voles in the South West of England from habitat loss and predation by the American Mink; work to safeguard the future of dormice in Cheshire and the creation of wildlife corridors benefitting birds, mammals and amphibians in North Wales.

Measures to promote green spaces and wildlife corridors in order to halt the loss of habitats and restore biodiversity.

The Wisconsin Conservation Congress and Trout Unlimited also complained about habitat loss and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has warned that delineating between state and federal wetlands would slow down the regulatory process.

Estimates from paw prints and camera traps put the number at about 1400 tigers (Science, 22 February 2008), a figure that reflects years of habitat loss and poaching.

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.

But more than 40 percent of the land - dwelling animals that live in mangrove forests are now under pressure from habitat loss, concludes an analysis published this week in BioScience.

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.

Crowley believes that gaining a better understanding of how animal mobility has been affected by the loss of species and habitat will be beneficial to current and future conservation efforts on the island.

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.

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.

«We see an accelerating decline in coastal species over the last 1,000 years, resulting in the loss of biological filter capacity, nursery habitats and healthy fisheries,» notes team member Heike Latze, also of Dalhousie.

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.

The study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, presents a historical view of how climate change and the resulting habitat loss can affect Earth's biodiversity.

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

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.

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

That corresponds to a roughly 3 1/2 week shift at either end — and seven weeks of total loss of good sea ice habitat for polar bears — over the 35 years of Arctic sea ice data.

In the next 35 years, Voigt's team calculates that further habitat destruction alone will lead to the loss of around 45,000 more of these apes.

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.

Hunting and habitat loss now threaten 87 % of large carnivores worldwide, the authors write, and conservationists should do more than keep track of population sizes.