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The rainforest in eastern Africa near the equator is being forested for lumber to support the economies of the countries near the rainforest. A rainforest is a forested biome with high annual rainfall. ... In geography, the equator is an imaginary line drawn around a planet, halfway between the poles, where the surface of the roughly spherical planet is parallel to the axis of rotation. ...


Habitat Destruction is where a native animal's native area is destroyed.


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...the Terai lowlands of Nepal, the floodplains of the Caprivi in Namibia, and the Afromontane forests of Uganda are all threatened by the loss of habitat and its...
The barred owl, loss of habitat because of wildfires and harvesting, and the West Nile virus all are contributing to the owl's steep decline of 30 percent in...
Its population decline is blamed primarily on the loss of habitat to farming, overgrazing and wildfires.
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Habitat loss is the largest threat to the survival and recovery of vernal pool species.
Habitat loss from suburban sprawl, increased agriculture and oil and gas development have devastated prairie dog habitat and resulted in large-scale population...
"Habitat loss and reduction in urban trees are primary causes of diminishing bird populations," the men wrote.
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