"By 2015, 26% of remnant threatened fauna habitat and 35percentnt of remnant threatened flora habitat had been cleared statewide," the report said.
The required expansion of agricultural land is not only approaching a reasonable limit but also threatening the last remnants of natural reserve on the planet, with the added complication that many of the areas used for centuries by man are now reaching the stage of serious degradation [5].
wild in Italy and threatening to drive the small remnant of wolves there into extinction.
With Militant threatening to shove Neil Kinnock and the battered remnants of his party over the electoral precipice for good, it was centrist trade union leaders like Moss Evans, David Basnett and Gavin Laird who held them at bay.
Mr Trump's Syria withdrawal, of course, leaves Washington's Kurdish allies in a predicament - potentially caught between three fires: that of the Turks who are threatening a further encroachment into northern Syria; the remnants of IS; and the Bashar al-Assad government which also has scores to settle.
Roberts [31] suggested that the continuing negative effect of S. planifrons on remnant colonies of A. cervicornis may be keeping the coral rare, threatening the long-term prospects for its persistence regionally.
— The remnants of Hurricane Florence threatened more destruction on Tuesday as swollen rivers pushed higher in the Carolinas and flash flood advisories were issued for cities along the storm's northeast trajectory, including Washington, New York and Boston.
Completed in 1995, the levee protected the city from high water in the year of the Blizzard of 1996, and again 2004, when rainfall from the remnants of Hurricane Ivan threatened the city.
So the group that terrorized half a country, northern Mali, in the heart of West Africa for much of 2012, taking over its major towns, and threatening other nations in the region, has been reduced to a pale remnant of its former self.
During the Balkan Wars (1912 13), fought by the Balkan states over the remnants of the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary twice tried to force Serbia to withdraw from positions gained by threatening it with an ultimatum.
