What is causing habitat destruction?
Urban Sprawl Urban development disrupts and divides natural habitats with the construction of new roads, subdivisions and malls. This leaves isolated fragments of ecosystems, changes pollination and seed-dispersal patterns, disrupts wildlife migration routes and reduces the size of breeding grounds. An example of clearcutting in in New Brunswick. Photo: Evergreen. Forest Destruction According to Global Forest Watch, Canada contains over a third of the world’s boreal forest, one-fifth of the world’s temperate rainforest and one-tenth of the total global forest cover. Yet research shows that right now over 80 percent of the logging carried out in public forests is done by clearcutting, a method of harvesting timber where all trees are cut in a prescribed area. This can cause major problems with erosion, as well as the loss of sensitive plant species. Agricultural Practices Enormous amounts of land, once host to a wide variety of native plant species, have been fundamentally altered for m
