Sentences with phrase «rapid loss of habitats»

With the rapid loss of habitats and species threatening the health of our planet, the historical roots of our beliefs about other animals are coming under scrutiny.

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

Milkweed is the one and only host plant for monarch caterpillars and a rapid loss of habitat and milkweed has led to a precipitous drop in monarch populations.

The need for wildlife - friendly backyards is more crucial than ever before, owing to the rapid loss of habitat as suburban subdivisions (and their requisite big - box stores) continue gobbling wildlife habitat across Canada.

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However, while the absence of large predators may make it safer to walk on the forest floor, a more pressing influence is the rapid and unprecedented loss of Borneo's orangutan habitat.

Already, the extraordinary concentrations of endemic species in the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor are experiencing rapid habitat loss.

And global warming is so rapid — as fast as any warming in the past 65 million years — that species already under pressure from habitat loss and overexploitation are at greater risk of extinction.

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

However, we argue that focusing on these isolated sites may reduce the immediate risk of population extirpation within them, but neglecting corridors in a region experiencing rapid habitat loss (Hansen et al. 2008), will not sustain tiger ecology, behavior, and genetics.

But alas, according to The Bat Conservation Trust (B.C.T.), there has been a rapid decline in bat populations due to loss of habitat thanks to us humans.