Unit 1: How Humans Threaten Wildlife
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- How Humans Threaten Wildlife
- Deliberate Exploitation
- Food e.g. sharks, dodo
- Fashion e.g. wild cats, rhino
- Pets + entertainment e.g. lizards, tigers
- Furniture + ornaments e.g. coral, mahogany
- Medicines e.g. tigers, snakes
- Oils (soap) e.g. whales
- Deliberate Eradication
- Species that threaten humans e.g. sharks, snakes
- Predators that threaten livestock e.g. wolves, lions
- Agricultural pests e.g. insects, fungi, molluscs
- Disease risks e.g. mosquitoes
- Pests in forestry plantations e.g. deer, beavers
- Wild herbivores that eat crops or are competitors e.g. rabbits, deer
- Inability to Survive Habitat Aleration
- Introduced predators e.g. cane toad
- Introduced competitors e.g. red/grey squirrels
- Introduced diseases e.g. bark beetle fungus/elm trees
- Changes in abiotic factors e.g. agriculture
- Deforestation + Mining
- Flooding
- Urbanisation
- Deliberate Exploitation
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