Word: habitat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...measure up in comparison? We are beset by a whole range of discontents and confusions. For a great many, the dunghill has become a natural habitat. Derain and other observers of depravity would, in fact, be stunned by the chaos of manners and speech, by the hellish ubiquity of crime and the easy -- one might almost say the democratic -- availability of drugs; by the new varieties of decadence -- rock songs about rape and suicide, pornography at the corner newsstand, commercials for S&M clubs on your friendly cable channel, not to mention telephone...
Countless examples show that disregarding the natural balance is self-destructive. Deforestation in Southeast Asia has let the rivers wash fertile topsoil down the drain, so to speak, destroying the land and the habitat of the indigenous human population that was supposed to benefit from the cleared space. The same thing is being repeated in the Amazon...
Saving the salmon will require a far-reaching plan to restore habitat, reduce the number of commercial fish harvests and limit the number of hatchery salmon released in the river. But the crucial element will be changing operations at the dams to increase the velocity of the waters so that young fish are quickly flushed seaward. Biologists say this can be achieved by releasing vast amounts of water from upstream reservoirs or by lowering water levels in the pools behind the dams during the spring migration...
...little shore birds caught in oil spills, but also to rare species of beetles and other less cuddly creatures that happen to live on private property. The development of many small businesses has been halted by the government because the land in question is a rare bug's natural habitat...
...EXAMPLE, a middle-class man who had worked hard to afford a piece of land that he meant to develop into a golf course was suddenly told that he had wasted his money and effort. The land was the habitat of a rare butterfly. Other small property owners are prohibited from developing their own homes for similar reasons...