Sentence examples for increasing human encroachment from inspiring English sources

But emerging diseases have quadrupled in the last half-century, experts say, largely because of increasing human encroachment into habitat, especially in disease "hot spots" around the globe, mostly in tropical regions.

How can we ensure their continued survival in a world with increasing human encroachment?

While it will no longer be considered extinct, the Kandyan dwarf toad will still be endangered due to the small number that were found and the increasing human encroachment into Sri Lankan forests.

Prescribed burning combined with thinning has been demonstrated to be effective at reducing fire severity across a variety of dry forest types, but there is uncertainty about whether changing climate and increasing human encroachment into the wildland urban interface will limit the use of prescribed fire in the future.

Increasing human encroachment and certain cultural practices sometimes linked with poverty, such as bushmeat hunting, result in increasing exposure of humans to animals which may harbour diseases including Ebola (Daszak, 2000; Wolfe et al., 2005, 2007).

Increasing human encroachment into remaining camel range includes increasing numbers of herder camps and livestock density in the buffer zone of the Great Gobi A SPA (Enkhbileg et al., 2006), and escalating incidents of illegal placer mining ("ninja mining") within the protected area (Adiya, 2008a).

The demand for tiger-derived products originating from China is one of the main reasons; clamping down on it will ease the pressure on the wild tigers and lions.But there is another important factor: the precipitous shrinking of tiger and lion habitat due to increased human encroachment.

Although the shapes and sizes of forest fragments around the Daraina region have been mostly stable for 50 years prior to a study in 2002, the six years preceding the study had seen 5% of the small- to medium-sized forest fragments disappear due to increased human encroachment.

Additionally, changes in virus strain virulence, the distribution of vector species, land use patterns, forest succession and/or increased human encroachment into enzootic foci could also be contributing factors.

The rangelands of southern Ethiopia are adversely affected by increased human population pressure, encroachment of crop cultivation, and bush encroachment.

Increased human and natural disturbance.