habitat

"Genomic analyses show that koalas have experienced major population declines in the past due to climate change and habitat loss. When environmental conditions improved, their populations recovered and expanded across much of eastern Australia."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

"It's important to make clear many of the threats facing modern koala populations are caused by humans, which includes habitat loss and hunting."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

Breeding male capercaillies have increased by by 50% since 2020, but numbers had declined as a result of habitat loss, eggs being eaten and the birds flying into deer fences.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

"Destruction and degradation of habitat kills threatened and endangered species just as surely as shooting them."

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

But the forest was not the habitat she knew.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Conservationists say the best way to help is by creating more flower-rich habitats, so bumblebees can find food even as the climate becomes more extreme.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

Oxygen loss can reduce or relocate their prey, damage habitats and alter the food webs they depend on.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

In 2019, it was recognised as an internationally important wetland under the Ramsar treaty -- designed to protect key habitats around the world.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

The scheme, alongside others including Nuclear Waste Services and Cumbria Wildlife Trust, will involve surveying the county's sand dune habitats which, like those in the rest of the country, have been historically degraded.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

For instance, climate changes at the end of the Pleistocene in the Fertile Crescent greatly expanded the area of habitats with wild cereals, of which huge crops could be harvested in a short time.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond