Sentences with phrase «other human encroachment»

Sea turtles are under enormous threat as they're caught as bycatch in fisheries, and lose their habitats to overfishing, pollution, and other human encroachment — including poaching and rampant sea turtle egg collection.

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The pronghorn is one of several endangered species whose habitat is severely impacted by human encroachment in the form of highways, access roads for increased border patrols, fences and other barriers.

«The primary threat to the Key Largo woodrat,» explains a 1999 USFWS report (which, admittedly, includes feral cats among the «other threats associated with human encroachment»), «is habitat loss and fragmentation caused by increasing urbanization.»

Whenever a population of birds, insects, rodents etc... becomes endangered, city officials always choose to make the feral cats the scapegoat, in spite of the fact that it is usually human encroachment, various predatory species other than cats, hunters, climate change, disease or various other non - cat related causes that are to blame.

It states that there is growing evidence that climate change significantly exacerbates other major human - induced pressures such as encroachment, deforestation, forest degradation, land - use change, pollution and overexploitation of wildlife resources.

That old phrase tossed out by parents at fearful children about spiders, «They're more afraid of you than you are of them,» has never been more true, at least according to researchers from the King Juan Carlos University (URJC) who have found that spiders, like many other animal species, are suffering from habitat loss and human encroachment.

And yet, there are few places facing as much risk of losing its flora and fauna to logging, pollution, human encroachment on habitat and other problems.

The series was conceived by Cabral as a way to highlight the plight of elephants, apes, tigers, pandas, lions, wolves and other animals that are currently being threatened by habitat loss, poaching, and other environmental pressures brought on by human greed, encroachment and massive climate change.

In Solloway v Hampshire County Council (1981) 79 LGR 449, 258 Estates Gazette 858 Lord Justice Dunn said that, in Leakey v National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty [1980] QB 485, [1980] 1 All ER 17, Lord Justice Megaw had placed nuisance by tree roots and branches into the same category as any other nuisance not brought about by human agency, and had imported into tree root cases, as conditions of liability, the requirement of knowledge of the encroachment and the requirement of a reasonably foreseeable risk that the encroachment would cause damage.