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Habitat Loss
By Austin Kessler
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Forests
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Habitat loss is becoming a big
problem in Maine. While we are cutting all the trees down we are
taking habitats away from many animals. Trees are homes for a lot
of animals. If they don't live up in trees they live on the ground
but use the trees for food or other uses. All the animals that live
on the ground, will get their habitats destroyed.
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When we build cities, we are taking what was a forest or, ecosystem
and destroying it. Probably 100 years before this picture was taken,
there was most likely a huge forest here. If we keep cutting
down all the forests, we will take all the animals' habitats and there
will be no more animals. If there are any animals left, they won't
be there for long because they won't have a habitat.
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Pollution
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Pollution can kill a lot of animals and destroy a lot of habitats.
Pollution can get into the water and kill all the plants that the
small fish eat. After that, bigger fish eat the smaller fish, but they
are not there because they died because they had no food. As you
can see, one thing can affect a lot. While we are cutting down the
forests, we are probably going to make a lot of pollution clearing or building
the site. Now we are destroying habitats in two ways without knowing
it.
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