Sentences with phrase «wildlife declines»

Rightly so: agricultural expansion and intensification are leading causes of wildlife declines and habitat loss, and with rising demand for agricultural products, pressures are set to mount even further.

Additionally, a lack of government control measures could have led to the increase in wolf populations, which would have further exacerbated wildlife declines.

«Space - eye - view could help stop global wildlife decline.»

Project leader Professor Jon Waters says that scientists have long argued about the causes of prehistoric wildlife declines and extinctions — some pointing the finger at humans, and others attributing the shifts to climate change.

All organisms act locally, yet global warming advocates quickly characterize any local wildlife declines as the dastardly work of global warming.

Although bees have been getting the spotlight for Colony Collapse Disorder, bats are suffering from «the most precipitous wildlife decline in the past century in North America,» according to biologists.

Bee decline, wildlife decline, environmental issues and extreme...

Bee decline, wildlife decline, environmental issues and extreme weather conditions are all included.

Lenny Bernstein, a chemical engineer who helped write part of a recent U.N. - sponsored report on climate change, said there was not enough evidence to link the wildlife declines to climate change, because animals face so many other destructive pressures.

As Jim Steele's research on bird populations discovered, it was not climate change but landscape changes that had caused the wildlife declines and by acting locally the problem was remedied by restoring the watershed.