"habitat damage" is a correct and usable term in written English.
You can use it to describe destruction of an environment that a particular animal lives in. For example: "Excessive logging is causing severe habitat damage to the local wildlife."
"If it went ahead this project would destroy wildlife habitat, damage precious artesian water and contribute to the global climate problem once the coal is burned".
"In this very isolated valley, you've got the possibility of three or four species and one genus disappearing with very little habitat damage," he said.
"If it goes ahead it will destroy wildlife habitat, damage scarce outback groundwater and contribute to the world's climate problem when the coal is burned".
Geothermal requires the diversion of major glacial lakes through massive damming projects that will change Iceland for ever, while the effects and exploitation of geothermal fields has been shown to cause irreversible habitat damage through pollution and emissions.
Our results may thus be helpful to predict and prevent possible habitat damage by swans.
Bottom trawling is a fishing method that typically produces high levels of bycatch and is associated with extensive benthic habitat damage.
The RSPB said the Government must ensure better management of native woodlands and restoration of habitats damaged by conifer plantations, and urged ministers not to "walk away" and allow the status quo to continue on forests.
The Woodland Trust warned better protection was needed for ancient woodlands, which are already under threat from development and planning reform, and the RSPB urged the Government to restore habitats damaged by conifer plantations.
But the overreliance of bottom trawling -- a fishing method that drags nets along the sea floor -- led to damage of habitat, harm to other marine species and a decline in local fishing income.
It promises expanded asphalt surfaces, worsened air, destruction of endangered species habitat and damage or destruction to 110 archaeological sites.
Other threats include habitat alteration, damage and loss from coastal development, pollution and the impact of fisheries on the seabed and prey species.
