How to Combat Habitat Loss. Combat habitat loss in your community by creating a Certified Wildlife Habitat® near your home, school, or business. Plant native plants and put out a water source so that you can provide the food, water, cover, and places to raise young that wildlife need to survive.

One of the easiest and most effective ways to help wildlife is to preserve the environment in which the animals live. Volunteer with organizations in your area to restore native forests, grasslands, and coastal ecosystems by planting native species, manually removing invasive plant species, and taking out old fences.

By conserving wildlife, we’re ensuring that future generations can enjoy our natural world and the incredible species that live within it. To help protect wildlife, it’s important to understand how species interact within their ecosystems, and how they’re affected by environmental and human influences.

Clearing habitats for agriculture is the principal cause of habitat destruction. Other important causes of habitat destruction include mining, logging, trawling and urban sprawl. Habitat destruction is currently ranked as the primary cause of species extinction worldwide.

What causes habitat loss? There are many causes of habitat loss, including land conversion for development from growing populations, mining for materials, harvesting lumber for paper products and, of course, agriculture.

There are three major types of habitat loss: habitat destruction, habitat degradation, and habitat fragmentation.

The primary individual cause of loss of habitat is the clearing of land for agriculture. The loss of wetlands, plains, lakes, and other natural environments all destroy or degrade habitat, as do other human activities such as introducing invasive species, polluting, trading in wildlife, and engaging in wars.

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Never miss a Moment Just to make things clear, this is not a real animal. It is a “room guardian” made by artist Anya Boz. The gryfaun, a hybrid between a faun and a gryphinx, has a sodalite crystal heart with a coat of faux fur. The head, arms and legs are all resin and the horns are plastic.

The dodo was extinct by 1681, the Réunion solitaire by 1746, and the Rodrigues solitaire by about 1790. The dodo is frequently cited as one of the most well-known examples of human-induced extinction and also serves as a symbol of obsolescence with respect to human technological progress.