Sentences with phrase «while habitat destruction»

While habitat destruction has caused some extinctions, cats, foxes, and rats introduced around 1800 by British sailors have also played a major role, decimating native animals like bilbies and bandicoots — both small, ratlike marsupials found only in Australia.

For example, neonicotinoid pesticides, which may have some detrimental effect on bees, are banned, while habitat destruction, which has clear detrimental effects, is not.

Not exact matches

When birds face the destruction of their habitat, some species don't make it while others survive.

And while climate change remains a legitimate concern for wildlife — particularly on isolated mountaintops and in species - poor polar regions — it does not come close to the immediate, irreparable damage caused by the destruction of habitat.

While I share many of his fears and can relate to a sense of despair in light of continued growth in CO2 emissions, habitat destruction and plastic pollution in the oceans, I see many reasons why it is absolutely necessary to explore and pursue the possibility of a «good Anthropocene.»