Yet, human actions – including deforestation, habitat destruction, pollution, climate change, etc. – have ushered in a mass extinction crisis.
Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from some serious environmental problems, including deforestation, soil erosion, desertification, wetland degradation, and insect infestation.
Their similarity has allowed them to interbreed and rapidly adapt to changing circumstances, including deforestation and encroaching urbanism.
The QF underwent extensive land use change between 1990 and 2010, including deforestation, plantation expansion, urbanization and mine expansion.
Changes in sediment fluxes caused by human 'reverse engineering' of the terrestrial biosphere include deforestation, irrigation and agriculture.
Native red squirrels have declined in Britain due to earlier persecution by people, habitat loss including deforestation and hence displacement by greys, and disease.
Stations of the Cross: Climate Change is a collection of 14 drawings that illustrate various aspects of the biodiversity crisis including deforestation, desertification, and ocean acidification.
Suggested topics for final projects include: deforestation, fracking, bees and pesticides, genetically modified food, ocean acidification, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
The threats to biodiversity are many – including deforestation, climate change, and overconsumption of natural resources – and humans play an outsized role.
The founder of the organization, Rinchen Samdrup, was initially inspired by observing the environmental destruction of the local sacred mountain, including deforestation and littering, in 1997.
