Sentences with phrase «with habitat destruction»

There are many other human - induced stresses on life, including land conversion with habitat destruction, species overharvesting, homogenization of biota, and ubiquitous toxins, which must be dealt with, yet global warming caused by fossil fuel burning may be a unique threat because of the millennial time scale of anthropogenic carbon within surface carbon reservoirs.

STEVE: The big problem that a lot of third - world nations have [with habitat destruction] is currently incurable.

«People rely on bees and pollinating insects for a large proportion of our food, yet humans have paid the bees back with habitat destruction, insecticides, climate change and air pollution.

We were very proud of that, but then what people are forgetting is that [coping with habitat destruction in a region like this] is a very long - term process.

Not exact matches

In addition to habitat destruction, the disappearance of species is associated with other forms of deterioration of the environment.

«From the complete destruction of the Rockaway Boardwalk to recreational assets and natural habitats broken up by wind and water, New York City's parks were faced with unprecedented damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy,» Commissioner Mitchell Silver said.

Port Ambrose would interfere with shipping traffic and commercial fishing industries, and cause water quality impacts and habitat destruction.

With the taut suspense of a spy novel, Voigt paints a vivid world of murder, black market deals and habitat destruction surrounding a fish that's considered, ironically, to be a good - luck charm.

Although people rarely intend to drive species into oblivion, as with the giraffe, they do so through the destruction of habitat, poaching and legal hunting.

In a letter publishing Monday in Frontiers of Ecology and the Environment, Norma Fowler and Tim Keitt, both professors in the Department of Integrative Biology, examine what would happen if more of Texas» roughly 1,200 miles of border with Mexico were to be walled off, contributing to habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation and ecosystem damage.

Yet Idaho wildlife officials say habitat destruction and fragmentation linked to human activities are the greatest threats to the sage - grouse, with predation ranking 12 among 19 factors that contribute to the bird's decline.

This time the warming is more rapid, though, and comes with the added challenge of human - driven habitat destruction, illegal hunting and pollution.

Polar bears are likely to have survived periods of warming before, but Axel Janke at the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt, Germany, points out that this time the warming is more rapid and is happening in tandem with human - driven habitat destruction, illegal hunting and pollution.

«It suggests that the findings we can manage locally, like pesticides, habitat destruction and planting companion plants, can actually make a difference because these factors can buy pollinators time for natural selection and evolution, thus allowing the species to keep pace with the things that we can't manage locally,» said Galen.

«It is likely in the case of the red wolf and the Great Lakes [eastern] wolf that mixture with coyotes was caused by human actions, wolf control, and habitat destruction, which allowed coyote numbers to increase.

Elizabeth Griffin Wilson, a marine scientist with the international conservation group Oceana, points out that the new paper does not specifically investigate the effects of factors like fishing bycatch or habitat destruction, so she urges caution in comparing the human and natural toll on sea turtles.

Zoologist Gordon Rodda of the U.S. Geological Survey in Fort Collins, Colorado, agrees, pointing out that the study is «one more line of evidence that habitat destruction interacts with the introduced species, and the combination is devastating.»

«Our findings suggest that large - brained animals might be better prepared to cope with environmental challenges such as climate change and habitat destruction,» said Dr Szekely, who worked with researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), Pannon University (Hungary) and McGill University (Canada) on the project.

«That's what we aimed for with this study, to understand not only how many species have we lost already as a result of habitat destruction, but also how many more have we committed to extinction due to those fast changes in forest cover.»

After years of illegal poaching and habitat destruction, an area that was once thriving with Indochinese tigers is now barren.

Indeed, the rehabilitation of our water bodies can not happen with a denial of science that portrays the toll of global warming on our oceans due to excessive carbon dioxide emissions and human folly in overexploitation, unregulated and destructive fishing, marine pollution and habitat destruction.

In terms of bird welfare, 67 % of Gatineau residents think habitat destruction is the worst threat to birds, with pesticide exposure coming in second at 46 %, and cats in third place at 33 %.

Continuing threats to bald eagle populations include lead poisoning from ammunition in hunter - shot prey, collisions with motor vehicles and stationary structures, and development - related destruction of shoreline nesting, perching, roosting and foraging habitats.

Habitat destruction is a process of land use change in which one habitat - type is removed and replaced with another habitat - type.

Other anthropogenic changes like habitat destruction and fragmentation also make it less likely that ecosystems can cope with climate change by shifting.

«Humans already interfere - massively - with Nature in diverse ways ranging from uncontrolled habitat destruction to «rewilding», big - cat captive breeding programs, the eradication of blindness - causing parasitic worms, and so forth,» added Pearce.

With over 100 victories that stop overfishing, habitat destruction, pollution and killing of threatened species like turtles and sharks, Oceana's campaigns are delivering results.

Policies to replace fossil fuel - based electric generation with wind and solar generation necessitate massive land modification and habitat destruction.

This is a reprise of an increasingly familiar story: human - induced climate change, along with other human bequests such as pollution and habitat destruction, have begun to threaten the wild things everywhere.

In this book, ecologists, conservationists, lawyers, and atmospheric scientists detail the benefits of alternative market - based systems for reducing and sequestering the carbon emissions currently threatening the planet with global warming and the destruction of animal and human habitat.

As with all energy development, wind can adversely affect wildlife, whether through habitat destruction or direct collisions.

But even with such restrictions in place, Dr. Searchinger's study shows, the purchase of biofuels in Europe and the United States leads indirectly to the destruction of natural habitats far afield.

Rising energy consumption has long been synonymous with the destruction of nature, but according to Linus Blomqvist, Director of Research at Breakthrough Institute, a world with cheaper, cleaner, and more abundant energy might improve human wellbeing and, at the same time, leave more land for habitats and wildlife.

This extent of habitat destruction and fragmentation means that even if individuals of a species can move fast enough to cope with ongoing climate change, they will have difficulty dispersing into suitable areas because adequate dispersal corridors no longer exist.

Climate change is also predicted to interact with other drivers of biodiversity change such as habitat destruction and fragmentation, or the introduction of foreign species.

Native to the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico, the woodpecker species is believed to have gone extinct with the complete destruction of its habitat from logging, with nary a sighting after 1956.

With bees in serious decline due to habitat destruction and overuse of human - made chemicals, Ren Ri's unconventional beekeeping work is one of many pointing to the vital urgency of protecting the world's bees (which you could also do at home yourself).

They also face other threats from habitat destruction, continued poaching for ivory, meat and hides; trophy hunting; and removal because of conflicts with humans.

Included in the changes is the replacement of the commonly cited prohibition against harmful alteration, disruption, or destruction of fish habitat, along with greater penalties that took effect Nov. 25.