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Future Tenants
Friday, February 29th, 2008
When humans decide to occupy a piece of land, we usually don’t leave it in its natural state. Instead, we either change it to better serve our own interests, we extract all the natural resources from it, or both. We create our own habitat-but what about the animals that lived on the land before us? Is the “habitat” that we create still a suitable place for them to call home when we are done with it? For some species, the answer is yes. Animals that prefer the same type of habitat that we do (open ground without a lot of trees) usually are not harmed by human expansion unless we see them as pests and start trying to exterminate them. What about animals that prefer forest? They have to retreat as we move forward, and eventually their numbers decrease because there is nowhere left for them to go. (more…)
Tags: animals, Environment, habitat, human
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