Many different animals live in Bangladesh, but sadly that number is diminishing. There are 138 species of threatenedmammals, 566birdspecies, 167reptilespecies, 49amphibianspecies, 253 freshwaterfishspecies, 141crustaceans, and 305butterflyspecies in the country. Overexploitation and habitat degradation are...
As a result, there is a whole history of overexploitation in the form of overhunting (this was already complained by Lv Buwei, an ancient Chinese philosopher, 2000 years ago, as at the beginning of this chapter). Water resources, such as those in rivers and lakes and some aquifers that ...
Wildlife, as part of the nature ecosystem, is being threatened due to human activities such as poaching, illegal trafficking, habitat destruction and overexploitation of resources. In addition, the rapid growth of human population and the development of urban areas further aggravate the problem. ...
The focus here is on those presentlyfacing a precipitous decline due to human activitieslike habitat destruction, pollution or overexploitation, all activities destroying populations far more rapidly than the natural biological process of species adaptation can occur. Considering the infinite complexity of ...
overexploitation of sea otters in the fur trade (Elliott, 1875).Baur et al. (1996)correctly asserted that “the sea otter survived, not because of the 1911 Treaty or its implementing law,115but because the animals were simply too scarce to justify the cost of searching them out and killing...
He has published two books and over 120 scientific papers on various aspects of human impacts on the natural environment and biodiversity, including climate change, deforestation and overexploitation of populations. In 2006, he was awarded both the Australian Academy of Science Fenner Medal for ...
China is one of the countries with the most diverse and abundant wildlife resources, in which dwells over 7300 vertebrate species, comprising ~11% of the world’s total wildlife species [1]. Owing to a series of national regulations and laws to ban illegal hunting and overexploitation, and th...
Introduction: Endangered endemic medicinal plants are facing the risk of habitat destruction, overexploitation, and climate change. Predicting their potential distribution accurately using species distribution models (SDMs) can help prevent the loss of plant diversity and ecological destruction caused by clima...