What are the main reasons for habitat loss?
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let's see, cutting down canada's ancient boreal forests by kimberly-clark so they can make KLEENEX, disgraceful.\ncutting down forests to expand factory farming only so that the animals can be slaughtered. horrifying.  by far it is human selfishness and lack of education that is destroying our world.
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Extinct species, if not extinct by human activity (shooting them, cutting their forests down, etc.), have extinct for a reason - they did not fit well to the enviournment.\nRecreation of such species may destabilize the delicate balance of nature.\nMoreover, any human interferance with nature, whether trying to do good or bad, can only harm it.\n\nThere are two (1.5) reasons. I think you can start with these, and probably the rest will come to mind after writing this. If not, I believe that other people will have further ideas.\n\nGood luck!
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- No water to drink (all water salty)\n- Nowhere to go (surrounded by water)\n- Lots of predators\n- Uneven climate
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When an animal's environment changes, the animal needs to change in order to adapt to their environment. For example, if area gets colder then the animal adapts to their new environment by growing thicker fur. Natural selection kills off the ones with short fur allowing the ones with longer furs to reproduce.
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1) Farming can cause soil erosion: \ne.g. Deforestation removes roots holding soil and allows extensive wind and water damage. \n\n2) Farming causes desertification: \nThis is when a desert gradually spreads to the surrounding areas of semi-desert, making them true desert! \n\n3) Chemical pollution and habitat destruction are major problems: \nCareless use of fertilisers pollutes rivers and lakes, making them green, slimy and horrible. \n\n4) Irrigation can cause environmental problems:\ncreating dams involves flooding large areas. Wildlife habitats are destroyed and people have to be resettled! \n\nHope I helped!
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It provides as the natural habitat for a lotof animals and they help with the floods since they sip it up faster. The more denser the forest the better. It gives researchers more things to discover about plants and animals.
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Endangered because of poaching for traditional medicines and destruction of habitat. Habitat tropical rainforests,found in Indonesia,though very rare.They are herbivores.Importance for natural balance. Solution: to stop illegal poaching, and provide space for them to live in.
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Patience. As they progress through recovery, one must expect setbacks. ;-)\n\nALASKA?!?!?!? No! Are you crazy? Don't let them near it until they complete recovery and are certified safe near wildlife.
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Not only biologists but everybody must feel concerned about the vanishing species on earth.This is  because nobody lives in isolation.We are all ( The plants,animals and man) related and dependent upon each other.)\n With every extinction an important link in the life on the earth is broken and gone. It has a cascading effect.\n In Australia, with the disappearance of Dodo ( A bird since extinct) the trees that were dependent on Dodo for germination of their seeds also disappeared. It was established that the seeds must pass through the digestive system of the bird before germination as the hard cover used to get digested by the bird.Scores of insects and bees bring about pollination in plants.Disappearance of these bees due to indiscriminate use of the pesticides will undoubtedly affects those plants.\nLife on this planet is like an intricate web, damage to any of its part will destroy the web and even man will not be spared.
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Yes the forests are disappearing but little is being done to address this issue. Lumber companies in all provinces are supposed to put money into reforestation and the companies are falling short. Government talks a big talk but over the last 25 years have cut funding drastically in this area.Trees do more than help clean the air. They support wildlife and prevent soil erosion and so on. Species  of wildlife will be extinct if something is not done and fast. Where is the governments new environment act..........Oh yeah, that was a lie too. If we all planted one tree a year it would be like a hug to the earth.
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1) Widespread Terratoriality.\n2) Global Warming.\n\n#1 is like going places man wasn't supposed to go..like space, and the deep ocean, and even underground..\n#2 is very self-explainatory.\n\nNitrogen.
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http://www.habitat.org/how/factsheet.aspx
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i think it might of been the start of the extinction and possibly other factors as well.   through out time animals adapt so it is possible that the meteor hit along with the rapid climate change caused this all the happen or appear to happen at once.   how do we know that the extinction was not already in progress before the meteor hit.   i don't think we will ever know.   Science is fact and a little bit of art when they come up with these ideas.
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Oh sure then.\nAnd I'll tell you what...\nBetween weather changes and Global Warming, a substantial number of upheavals are occurring in the life styles of many species, some to their unfortunate extinction when they change patterns and can't survive within the changed environment anyway.\nMankind is both a blessing and a curse!
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The experimental fragmentation of landscapes of a natural ecosystem resulted in declines in the abundance and distribution of most species in the multispecies animal community inhabiting the landscapes and the extinction of many species. These declines caused the deterioration of the positive interspecific relation between local population abundance and distributional extent in this community. However, when patches were connected by habitat corridors, an immigration "rescue effect" arrested declines in both abundance and distribution and maintained the observed positive relation between them. These results demonstrate the importance of metapopulation dynamics and landscape connectivity for the persistence of populations in fragmented landscapes.
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There are many effects on the environment depending mostly on where the road is built.  The first effect would be to the wildlife of the area.  When trees and land are cleared for road construction, it results in the loss of habitat for many organisms.  For example, a single oak tree can support thousands of insects and hundreds of birds.  By removing that one tree, you have possible destroyed these organism's habitat.  Also, cutting down trees and clearing land add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.  Tree and other plants use carbon dioxide in photosynthesis.  They store some in their bodies.  This is released into the atmosphere which can add to the global warming problem.  That along with all the construction equipment letting out carbon monoxide and dioxide during the construction phase.  And that is just the surface of what is caused.
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I believe that we should stop and preserve more for wildlife. I LOVE animals with everything I own. They are so kool!!! So maybe someone should start a petition or start something to stop the killing of wildlife and habitats!!!!