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Topic: Habitat loss

	Archived conservation news articles on Loss of Habitat
		...the Terai lowlands of Nepal, the floodplains of the Caprivi in Namibia, and the Afromontane forests of Uganda are all threatened by the loss of habitat and its...
		The barred owl, loss of habitat because of wildfires and harvesting, and the West Nile virus all are contributing to the owl's steep decline of 30 percent in...
		Its population decline is blamed primarily on the loss of habitat to farming, overgrazing and wildfires.
	conservation.mongabay.com /news/Loss_of_Habitat.htm (11783 words)

	Habitat Loss
		Habitat loss is the largest threat to the survival and recovery of vernal pool species.
		Habitat loss from suburban sprawl, increased agriculture and oil and gas development have devastated prairie dog habitat and resulted in large-scale population...
		"Habitat loss and reduction in urban trees are primary causes of diminishing bird populations," the men wrote.
	conservation.mongabay.com /Habitat_Loss.htm (2477 words)

	Habitat Loss
		Habitat loss is what happens when an area becomes unsuitable for a species to live.
		Your back yard may no longer be habitat for cougars and wolves, yet still be habitat for squirrels and robins as it has been for centuries.
		HABITAT LOSS IS A BIG PROBLEM: Every second an area the size of two football fields ceases to become natural habitat.
	www.tigertouch.org /survival21/habitatloss.html (877 words)

	The Extinction Website - Habitat Loss
		Habitat loss is probably the greatest threat to the variety of life on this planet today.
		Forest loss and degradation is mostly caused by the expansion of agricultural land, intensive harvesting of timber, wood for fuel and other forest products, as well as overgrazing.
		The net loss in global forest area during the 1990s was about 94 million ha (equivalent to 2.4% of total forests).
	www.petermaas.nl /extinct/habitatloss.htm (883 words)

	Habitat Loss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		IngentaConnect Habitat Loss and Extinction in the Hotspots of Biodiversity
		Habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation Suitable habitat is essential for animals to survive, and habitat loss is a common problem across the country.
		Habitat in the Big Woods of Arkansas The decline of the ivory-billed woodpecker is a story of habitat loss.
	www.habitat12.com /habitatloss (861 words)

	GulfBase - Habitat Loss
		Habitat is defined as an area that provides the food, water, cover and space that a living organism needs to survive and reproduce.
		Decades of widespread habitat destruction are evident throughout the region due to the rapid growth in human population and resource consumption.
		Habitat losses in the Gulf have caused a decline in fish and wildlife populations, reduced biodiversity, increased risk to threatened and endangered species and reduced opportunities for recreation.
	www.gulfbase.org /issue/view.php?iid=habitat (673 words)

	Habitat Loss / Preservation: Habitat Loss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		A habitat is a place where animals have all of their needs, which are; food, water, shelter, and a place where that animal can produce babies.
		Habitat loss is caused by natural disaster and human destruction.
		Habitat loss is when all, one, two, or three of the animals needs are lost that that animal needs to survive.
	www.hcpss.org /res/habitat/habitatloss.html (94 words)

	Habitat Loss
		Habitat loss alters or eliminates the conditions needed for plants and animals to survive.
		Habitat loss or change in habitat for corals can result from excess shade, increased levels of ultraviolet radiation, sedimentation, pollution, salinity changes, and increased temperatures.
		Habitat use by juvenile Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in the presence of an actively foraging and non-foraging predator.
	www.conservationinstitute.org /ocean_change/habitatloss.htm (1240 words)

	Habitat Loss - Endangered Species Classroom In The Wild - Bagheera
		As human population and consumption increase, wildlife habitat is converted to houses and highways.
		Even if habitat is not completely destroyed, it can be fragmented or degraded so much that it can no longer support the species it once did.
		A significant percentage of many habitats in North America that are important for wildlife have been destroyed or degraded since the time of European colonization.
	www.bagheera.com /inthewild/classroom/class_extinction_habitat.htm (232 words)

	Habitat Loss and Degradation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Habitat loss and degradation is an issue worldwide and has many consequences for animals and people from all walks of life.
		It addresses elements such as people’s and nature’s role in habitat loss and degradation, and the types of land degradation.
		Gives a general overview of what habitat loss and degradation is, and some of the causes of it.
	students.uwsp.edu /mrasm282 (612 words)

	ANEP: Publications - Habitat Loss Technology Transfer
		Estuarine habitat types include physically-defined examples such as submerged (seagrass and eelgrass, kelp and other attached macroalgae, soft bottom, hard bottom such as coral reefs or oyster bars), intertidal (rocky coasts, mudflats and sandbars) and emergent (marshes and mangroves).
		All these habitat types are important to estuarine-dependent species (fish, invertebrates or mammals) at some point in their life cycle, and can act as a "bottleneck" to the survival and growth of these populations if lost or degraded.
		The habitat website-database is an integrated compendium of unique, state-of-the-art NEP characterization and management approaches and initiatives that have been compiled from the NEP experience to facilitate the dissemination of technical information useful to resource managers.
	www.nationalestuaries.org /publications/habitat_loss.htm (5259 words)

	Unit III - Habitat Loss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Habitat loss is one of the main threats to biodiversity.
		Population size is also reduced in a smaller habitat area, which increases the likelihood of genetic problems in the future.
		Habitat loss and fragmentation do not only occur in terrestrial areas, it can occur in aquatic environments as well.
	www.uwsp.edu /cnr/wcee/biodiversity/sbiodiversity/unit3/hippo.htm (786 words)

	Bullfrogs: Introduced Predators in Southwestern Wetlands
		Habitat destruction and introduced predators appear to be primary causes of native frog declines (Jennings and Hayes 1994), and habitat modification often yields ponds and lakes especially suitable for introduced species.
		These populations are in areas not occupied by bullfrogs in habitats that may dry too frequently for non-native predators (personal observations), as seen in native frogs of the central valley of California (Hayes and Jennings 1988).
		Habitat correlates of distribution of the California red-legged frog (Rana aurora draytonii) and the foothill yellow-legged frog (Rana boylei): implications for management.
	biology.usgs.gov /s+t/noframe/x188.htm (1667 words)

	Frogs Australia Network - Habitat Loss
		Habitat loss is the best reported cause of frog declines.
		The current rates of land clearing and the suspected losses in biodiversity associated with it are well documented.
		Habitat destruction or changes to an environment can result in frogs losing their food, their water supply, their resting and hiding places and their partners.
	www.frogsaustralia.net.au /conservation/habitat-loss.cfm (228 words)

	Habitat Destruction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Habitat which has not had its structure changed may still be degraded by anthropogenic activities.
		Habitat fragmentation is a product of habitat destruction but it may be dangerous since it does leave some habitat intact and this is used as justification.
		Isolation is partly a factor of the hostility of the intervening habitat.
	www.science.mcmaster.ca /biology/CBCN/genetics/fos_tig5.htm (430 words)

	Animal Awareness / Habitat Loss
		Two of the biggest culprits causing this mess are loss of resources and loss of biodiversity.
		Farm losses are subsidized by the government, meaning that your taxes pay for those losses, when they could be going to education or to decrease crime.
		Animals lose their habitat, biodiversity (vital to human survival) is destroyed, and using the land to grow crops in a sustainable way is no longer an option.
	www.animalawareness.org /pages/types_habitat.html (1613 words)

	Habitat loss
		Natural habitats have been destroyed, fragmented and modified, resulting in widespread changes to the distribution and abundance of native plants and animals.
		This robs many native plants and animals of habitat, and it has been declared a 'key threatening process' in NSW.
		The NSW Scientific Committee has declared the loss of hill-topping sites to be a 'key threatening process' in NSW.
	www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au /npws.nsf/Content/Habitat+loss2 (262 words)

	Groundwork Leicester & Leicestershire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Habitat loss is the greatest threat facing the natural world.
		Human activity has been affecting wildlife habitats for thousands of years but the rate of habitat loss has never been so great.
		Often roads, factories, schools, fields, orchards, cemeteries etc. can be designed in such a way that new wildlife habitats can be created, but there will always be a need to preserve wilderness in order to protect some of our most beautiful and vulnerable wildlife.
	www.environ.org.uk /Nature/Habitat_Loss (316 words)

	Exploring Estuaries - Habitat Loss and Change
		habitats, or “homes,” for countless fish and other wildlife.
		In addition, these habitats also filter out pollution from the water and protect the surrounding region from flooding.
		However, as we build more homes and businesses surrounding estuaries and pave new roads we are destroying precious habitats and threatening the health of entire estuaries.
	www.epa.gov /owow/estuaries/kids/about/habitat.htm (89 words)

	EPA > Water > Wetlands, Oceans, & Watersheds > Oceans, Coasts, and Estuaries > Habitat Protection > Performance ...
		As coastal populations increase, the conversion of open land and forest to urban development and agricultural uses is a significant threat to natural habitats.
		Link to Contributing Factors for an interactive look at the variety of activities that contribute to habitat loss and other problems facing coastal watersheds and estuaries.
		Diminished and degraded habitats are less available to support healthy populations of wildlife and marine organisms and less able to perform the economic, environmental, and aesthetic functions that coastal populations depend on for their livelihoods and protection.
	www.epa.gov /owow/estuaries/pivot/habitat/problem.htm (353 words)

	Habitat Loss
		The brown bear is California's state symbol, yet brown bears have not roamed freely here since the early 1920's at which time the last known wild brown bear was killed.
		The greatest cause of declining brown bear population is loss of habitat.
		Habitat loss is a direct result of our increasing demands upon the land, its resources and human intolerance of bears.
	www.shadowofthebear.com /katmai.html (113 words)

	The Jane Goodall Institute
		The three greatest threats to the continued existence of chimpanzees, gorillas, and bonobos in Africa are habitat loss, hunting for meat, and the shooting of mothers to take their infants for the live animal trade.
		In the past many young chimps were exported for entertainment or biomedical research in the United States and other countries.
		Habitat loss is linked to the ever-increasing demands for land by the exploding human population.
	www.janegoodall.org /chimp_central/conservation/issues/habitat_loss.asp (229 words)

	Priority habitat loss ME-4
		Thus removal or degradation of priority habitats is like removing stones from the base of a house.
		Priority habitats are terrestrial or aquatic areas distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features and in danger of disappearance.
		Main threats would come from not including priority habitats which are politically earmarked for development, but concentrating on those areas already well protected by law - nature reserves etc. The second threat would come from subjective measure of priority habitat deterioration, or an insufficient weighting of loss of function of a priority habitat.
	esl.jrc.it /envind/meth_sht/ms_we038.htm (745 words)

	Urbanization VS Habitat Loss
		The history of the elk herd, annual mortality, herd composition, social economic values and proposed habitat management are all discussed in depth.
		Barbara Whitaker (Struggle for habitat increasing between humans and wildlife) vividly describes the conflict between humans and animals as they compete for habitat in Philadelphia.
		Specifically, the ramifications would be habitat loss and the eventual extinction of many wildlife species.
	landru.i-link-2.net /rvanderlip/habitat_loss.html (1927 words)

	SAFARIMATE MAGAZINE - AMBOSELI FIX
		Poaching was a problem, he admits, but the emphasis should have been on solving the issues in their entirety, not at the expense of the other.
		Now there is no poaching but the destruction of the habitat has left elephants and other species without ample feeding ground for their survival.
		One of the biggest effects from poaching, he says, was that elephants left the migration trail to seek refuge in safer areas which the KWS director believes, deprived the habitat of the cycle that allows grown land to recover its vegetation.
	www.safariweb.com /safarimate/amboseli.htm (1009 words)

	Conference on Habitat Loss
		Ecological effects of habitat loss and fragmentation in the boreal forest
		Habitat loss - effects on the genetics of populations
		The pattern of habitat loss: ecological and evolutionary consequences
	www.helsinki.fi /bioscience/spatialecology/hleegc1.html (247 words)

	Florida PantherNet - Official Education Site
		Roads, urban and suburban development, and agriculture decrease the amount of habitat available to panthers, fragment expanses of forested habitat preferred by panthers, and disrupt dispersal of young panthers.
		In Florida suitable (and perhaps even better) habitat for panthers does exist outside of southwest Florida, but to date habitat fragmentation appears to have prevented panthers from reestablishing reproducing populations north of the Caloosahatchee River (see maps).
		Female panthers, however, rarely cross major roads or use the underpasses so their habitat is still essentially fragmented by roads even where underpasses have been constructed (Maehr 1990a).
	www.panther.state.fl.us /handbook/threats/fragmentation.html (493 words)

	Koala Habitat Loss Strzelecki Ranges 2005
		Habitat retained must be mapped and identified as an exclusion area." The specifications include the following "Where one or two trees with evidence of koala presence are found, harvesting must be excluded from with a 50 exclusion zone around of (sic) each of these trees".
		Critical habitat supporting the so-called Strzelecki "super-koala" and endangered powerful owls is to be bulldozed as part of a controversial road-widening project in South Gippsland.
		The Koala Habitat Atlas is a project that aims to rank, identify and map critical habitat in a given area.
	www.hancock.forests.org.au /docs/koala2005a.htm (9875 words)

	c4fn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		If success in salmon recovery is defined to require naturally-spawning populations, salmon recovery may be a hundred-year war of trying to undo these developments piece by piece.
		Rather than try to assess what the piece-by-piece habitat losses mean for attempts to recover salmon runs, fishery agencies tend to blame the dams for the effect of habitat loss.
		In 1973, the Fish Commission of Oregon reported that the number of redds per “standard spawning ground survey unit” in Idaho per 100 fish counted at the uppermost dam had dropped precipitously from the early 1960s to the early 1970s.
	www.buchal.com /tgsh/chap7/c4fn-03.htm (301 words)

	Habitat Loss
		As a result of this growth and development, coastal habitats, such as forested wetlands, marshes, oyster reefs, and seagrass beds are disappearing at an astounding rate.
		A "wetland" is a habitat where surface and/or groundwater has resulted in the development of plant or animal communities adapted to aquatic or intermittently wet conditions.
		These examples represent only some of the habitat losses that have occurred and continue to occur in our coastal environment.
	www.mobilebaynep.com /habitatloss.htm (409 words)

	Habitat Loss Conference - Special Sessions
		Tiainen, Juha: Farmland habitat losses and bird extinctions in Finland
		With, Kimberly A.: The consequences of habitat loss for population persistence: extinction thresholds in fragmented landscapes
		Travis, Justin: The pattern of habitat loss: consequences for the evolution of dispersal
	www.helsinki.fi /bioscience/spatialecology/hleegc_sessions.html (1627 words)

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