In Colorado and Utah, the Bureau of Land Management plans to lease oil and gas on land where tiny, precarious populations of black-footed ferrets live.
Factor in the growing impact of climate change across the African Sahel region and already precarious populations on Europe's borders, and today's level of migration north could end up looking like a trickle.
The low socio-economic status of marginalized, disadvantaged, and precarious populations in urban settings has been linked to adverse health outcomes including chronic and infectious disease, negative health behaviours, barriers to accessing health care services, and overall mortality.
Similarly Ruthwaite Cove contains Arctic-alpine and tall-herb communities, and it is believed that the cove may contain very rare species of plants in very small, and therefore precarious, populations.
"In places where the supply is precarious, the population invents other ways to store water.
"The state of Britain's dormice remains precarious: the population decline apparent at monitored sites continues and a changing climate makes their future uncertain," says the report, The State of Britain's Dormice, published by the wildlife charity the People's Trust for Endangered Species (PTES).
The accidents can also take a toll on precarious wildlife populations.
But its stability has long been precarious, with its population of six million divided between Palestinian refugees and natives, known as East Bankers, and frequent spillover from the fighting across its borders in Iraq and Syria.
Maintaining such non-intensive land uses in the future may present major management challenges, and the recovery in the Souss-Massa region remains precarious because the population is concentrated in just a few places.
The study area includes a region in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, characterized by high population density, precarious domicile construction, and a general lack of infrastructure around it.
