habitat destruction
Sign in to saveAlso known as habitat loss, loss of habitat, habitat degradation, habitat reduction, habitat clearance, destruction of habitat, habitat alteration, degradation of habitat
state when natural environment becomes unable to support its native species due to human activity
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- destruction
- Subclass of
- process
- Has part
- habitat fragmentation
- Image
- Lacanja burn.JPG
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- has cause
- trawling
- has effect
- pollution
- Commons category
- Habitat destruction
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Climate change
- has contributing factor
- noise pollution
- handled, mitigated, or managed by
- wildlife corridor
- facet of
- endangered species
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Encyclopedic overview
Map of the world's biodiversity hot spots, all of which are heavily threatened by habitat loss and degradation
Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species. The organisms once living there have either moved elsewhere, or are dead, leading to a decrease in biodiversity and species numbers. Habitat destruction is in fact the leading cause of biodiversity loss and species extinction worldwide.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “habitat destruction” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.