Sentences with phrase «threatening fragile habitats»

Here in the United States, farmers are pulling land out of the federal conservation program, threatening fragile habitats... Most troubling, though, is that the higher food prices caused in large part by food - to - fuel mandates create incentives for global deforestation, including in the Amazon basin.

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Disproportionately, the scientists say, recently discovered species live in fragmented, fragile habitats — and therefore they, too, may number among those that are most threatened.

«These fragile habitats are threatened by increased urbanization, recreation, and climate change.

«We hope visitors will come away with a greater understanding and appreciation of the world - renowned floral diversity found in California's many unique ecosystems — as well as an understanding of how climate change and increasing habitat loss are threatening Nature's fragile native plant communities and species,» the photographers say.

Volunteer Stewards of Lands End are trained volunteers who perform habitat restoration and help in protecting fragile coastal ecosystems, as well as rare and threatened species.