Sentence examples for human encroachments from inspiring English sources

Mr. Adams is known for his spare, dispassionate views of an American landscape hard-pressed to escape human encroachments.

Human encroachments and siltation combined with the other anthropogenic activities reduced the open water quantity within the lake.

The projects' contribution to forest ecosystems' adaptation, for instance, by reducing human encroachments and by increasing ecosystem connectivity, has been limited.

But populations in the western and central portions of the continent are sparse, fragmented and threatened by human encroachments as well as poaching for traditional medicine products, according to a commission set up by the World Conservation Union.

Brown trout (Salmo trutta) are extensively harvested and its habitat highly influenced by human encroachments.

Indeed, in addition to climate change, salmonid fishes are exposed to a large number of human encroachments such as harvesting and fragmentation leading to reduced connectivity.

This makes them particularly vulnerable to human encroachment and development.

By 2050, 63% of remaining elephant rangelands will be compromised (pdf) by human encroachment.

Other artists sought to depict human encroachment into this untamed wilderness.

In some cases, human encroachment appears to have forced elephants to adapt their behavior.

Environmentalists read it as a vision of dread: an index of human encroachment and destruction.