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What is causing threatened habitat?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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A threatened habitat is a particular animal, species, or group of species, which is being plundered by the means of hunting or killing.

Certain habitats are also plundered by natural disasters such as earthquakes.

For example, an earthquake in grassland, or any other ecosystem, will damage the wildlife of the area.

In the case of hunting, various species all around the world are killed to get their skin, hides, etc.

A habitat can also be threatened by deforestation, erosion, and pollution.

Unfortunately the work "plundered" has heavy emotional connotations. Threatening a Habitat ( I presume that you mean community) as it is impossible to separate inhabitants from environment, Is to subject the habitat or community to change, either biological or physical. When you pump the waste water from your washing machine out of the house you are threatening some habitat, a grassy area, stream, marsh , lake, river or ultimately the ocean. Putting a driveway from the road into your cabin threatens the community and habitat as you will likely alter the drainage patterns in the immediate area. (microhabitat being altered and threatened. Does dumping your unwanted coffee overboard alter the local aquatic habitat? When you finish fishing , do you save the lives of the bait minnows and turn them loose or take them home? Many waters prohibit the dumping of bait minnows as they may threaten the resident game fish.

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Usually this damage that occurs to these habitats is caused by global warming or climate change, human influences such as deforestation and destroying land for certain products and housing or this damage could be caused by natural events. :) hope this helps :)

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Freshwater ecosystems occupy only about 0.8 percent of the Earth surface and yet they are suspected to harbor 6 percent of all known species. But freshwater habitats and species are among the worlds most endangered, according to the WWF, and a recent culmination of 10 years of mapping and research. With the help of 200 scientists in this field of study a map and database of the planet's freshwater ecoregions is at the site listed below. It shows the 426 sites or ecoregions covering all the freshwater on the globe serving as a planning, and measuring tool for future work in this area. This is just one of the ecosystems that is currently being sutdied to determine it's level of protection.

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The animal population is threatened by habitat loss. So many species are on the endangered list because of habitat loss.

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Why are there threatened habitats? how Why are there threatened habitats? how

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People are causing threatened habitats because we are destroying animals homes.

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