Tremendous land use/land cover changes had caused great damages to the ecological environment such as land degradation and ecosystem service recession.
Due to the increase in population and the concomitant requirement of grain, the building of farmland not only accelerated deforestation and cultivation of grassland and wetland but also resulted in damages to the ecological environment such as land degradation and ecosystem service recession.
The reclamation work in the last couple of years has done a lot of damage to the delicate ecological environment, especially the coral reefs.
Coal mining has made important contributions to economic development, however, with the expansion of the scale of coal mining, it has caused tremendous pressure and severe damage to the local ecological environment (Zang et al. 2010; Zhao et al. 2013).
Marc Gaden, spokesman for the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission in Ann Arbor, Mich., an organization of the governments of the United States and Canada that seeks to prevent pollution and ecological damage to the Great Lakes, said the fish were "scratching at our door".
However, the use of peat causes ecological damage to the environment and economic disadvantages to ornamental plant producers.
These dyes are used extensively in textile, paper, rubber and plastic industries and cause serious ecological damage to the environment if they are discharged without proper action.
The mine was closed after the 1998 accident, during which a dam burst caused billions of liters of acidic mining tailings to spill, nearly causing serious ecological damage to the park.
Most plants with ornamental leaves are cultivated in soilless media, in which peat is the basic medium; but the use of peat is questionable due to ecological damage to the environment and economic disadvantages to ornamental plant producers.
