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Roan Grace
Emma Boone
Liz Cartwright
Science
03 May 2019
Animals are losing their homes every day because of city development, leaving them
with nowhere to go. The problem that I am going to discuss today is the loss of wildlife habitat.
This is a global wide issue that is affecting humans as well. Animal habitats are being negatively
affected every day by urban city growth. They have lost their habitats due to deforestation, city
development, and climate change. It’s important people start taking measures to help animals by
Animals have no habit to live in they start to migrate to the city. As a quote from Popular
Science states.
“Suburban coyotes, like the pack in a residential area a few miles from O'Hare airport in
Chicago, have learned to live in much smaller territories than they do in rural places. Downtown
coyotes, which roam among the towers and traffic of the Chicago Loop, thrive in the city by
hunting enough small rodents to feed themselves and their young. Some urban coyotes have even
been spotted crossing streets in busy traffic—at the light, looking both ways, just like human
There have been many more animals attacks in cities from the 2000s because animals have had
to live in cities their unnatural habitat. The graph below it telling you how much of the land is
urban in the US. Based on this graph you can also tell that the rural areas are decreasing leaving
animals to move into cities. From around 1820 to 2018 there have been over 40 fatal wolf attacks
on humans, before 1820 there were almost none. Animals have been affected by losing their
homes and having to rely on humans for them to survive. They steal food from cites, dig in trash
cans, and lived in city neighborhoods. They have started to live like humans.
The impact that animals habitat loss has on humans are major, people just haven't
realized it yet. If the Honey Bee population were to go to extinct then there would be no animals
to pollinate the trees and plants leaving them to die off slowly causing our oxygen supply to
diminish. Animals are going extinct every day due to deforestation and habitat loss and without
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animals, it will make it very hard for the human population to stay alive. This graph below is
showing how many people live in an urban population and the more the population goes up the
“Sometimes a park in a city can burn to leave animals to have to move through the city to try and
This quote is also talking about how habitat loss affects us as well as animals because without
parks we also don’t get to go out outside in nature and animals migrate into the city, affecting
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There are many different ways people are trying to help animals with their habitats in
cities. For example, in Canada, they have made animals freeways because so animals can cross
the freeway without getting hurt. Another example of ways people have helped animals is by
making wall gardens in urban locations. If there is no room for a garden on the ground the people
grow a garden on a wall to make potential habitats for birds and other animals. As a quote from
Rewilding states,
“Wild rooftops, wild walls, and wild freeways are places where people have plants trees and
plants so they can grow and make homes for wild animals that live in cities.” ( Drake & Love
57.)
Other ways that I think people can help animals is by making sure trash is locked up at night and
anywhere that you can plant trees or flowers make sure that you are taking those chances and
helping the birds and the bees. There are many things that we can do to help animals because
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The issue that I talked to you about is wildlife habitat loss, Animal habitats are being
negatively affected every day by urban city growth. They have lost their habitats due to
deforestation, city development, and climate change. It’s important people start taking measures
to help animals by building wall gardens, locking up trash and keeping parks safe. Today you
learned about the impact habitat loss has and humans and wildlife and how people are trying to
help solve this problem. Our human population as a whole needs to make some changes so that
our wildlife can survive, then allowing us to live and thrive as well.
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Works Cited
http://wwf.panda.org/our_work/wildlife/problems/habitat_loss_degradation/
Holt, Steve. “Where Do Urban Animals Go When Their Habitats Disappear?” Citylab,
https://www.citylab.com/environment/2017/11/where-do-urban-animals-go-
when-their-habitats-disappear/546002/.
Coey, Julia. Animal Hospital: Rescuing Urban Wildlife. Firefly Books, 2015.
Drake, Jane, and Ann Love. Rewilding: Giving Nature a Second Chance. Annick Press,
2017.
Coles, Jeremy. “Earth - How a City Can Save Its Wildlife.” BBC, BBC, 31 July 2015,
www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150731-how-a-city-can-save-wildlife.
Ritchie, Hannah, and Max Roser. “Urbanization.” Our World in Data, 13 June 2018,
ourworldindata.org/urbanization.
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Lou, Mary, and Shovova. “Bridges for Animals to Safely Cross Freeways Are Popping
mymodernmet.com/wildlife-crossings/.
Mahoney, John. “Why Wild Animals Are Moving Into Cities, And What To Do About It.”
www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-12/why-wild-animals-are-moving-cities-
and-what-do-about-it.
“Category: Deaths Due to Animal Attacks in the United States.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia
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