What is the main reason that species are being lost to extinction?
2007-01-26 05:30:24 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
Habitat destruction.
2007-01-26 05:37:06 · answer #1 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Historically, catastrophic changes in the climate has caused extinction events. Supervolcanoes and big meteor hits have been the culprits.
Our present extinction event is being caused by a superpredator -- humankind. We hunt creatures to extinction. We destroy habitat. We introduce new predators into previously isolated island environments. We change habitats.
2007-01-26 13:38:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One main reason why species are being lost to extinction is that people are overhunting/harvesting the species.
2007-01-26 15:34:00 · answer #3 · answered by K. C. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man is dominant. Survival of the fittest. As our population increases man keeps building where animals live,,pushes them out.
2007-01-26 13:52:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
natural selection/ survival of the fittest
2007-01-26 13:38:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋