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Title: Habitat Destruction


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Habitat Destruction
  • Beaches

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Beaches
  • Popular vacation and retirement destinations
  • Many are over-developed with hotels, condos,
    resorts, and shops
  • Development and heavy use have had severe impact,
    especially on wildlife

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  • Beach nesting birds are in danger of extinction
    along US Gulf Coast because of disturbances by
    swimmers, pets, and dune buggies.
  • Other shorebirds face competition for nesting
    sites and egg predation from large gulls
  • Gulls can thrive on garbage generated by humans

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  • Sea Turtles Horseshoe Crabs are declining
    because of loss of nesting sites and predation.
  • Building houses, docks, seawalls disrupts
    habitats removes important areas for nesting,
    reproduction feeding
  • Development also destroys sand dunes beach
    vegetation that helps prevent erosion
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