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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Ritchie, Hannah; Roser, Max (2021-04-15). "Biodiversity". Our World in Data.

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Section sizes

Section size for Human impact on the environment (63 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	16,230	16,230
Human overshoot	58	15,659
Overconsumption	4,868	4,868
Population growth and size	10,733	10,733
Fishing and farming	1,930	40,507
Fishing	7,240	7,240
Irrigation	3,811	3,811
Agricultural land loss	6,638	6,638
Meat production	15,151	15,151
Palm oil	928	5,737
Habitat loss	2,161	2,161
Impact on biodiversity	1,595	1,595
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)	1,053	1,053
Ecosystem impacts	66	26,577
Environmental degradation	3,144	3,144
Habitat fragmentation	2,793	2,793
Mass extinction	8,600	8,600
Biodiversity loss	6,020	6,020
Invasive species	1,155	1,155
Human Introduced Invasive Species	43	4,254
Cats	1,764	1,764
Burmese Python	1,323	1,323
Hybrid boars	1,124	1,124
Coral reef decline	68	68
Water pollution	477	477
Climate change	3,826	3,826
Impacts through the atmosphere	38	4,237
Acid deposition	1,761	1,761
Ozone depletion	53	53
Disruption of the nitrogen cycle	2,385	2,385
Technology impacts	2,796	2,796
Mining industry	2,654	2,654
Energy industry	1,963	12,750
Biodiesel	2,032	2,032
Coal mining and burning	3,332	3,332
Electricity generation	99	99
Nuclear power	1,724	1,724
Oil shale industry	1,516	1,516
Petroleum	371	371
Reservoirs	1,638	1,638
Wind power	75	75
Manufacturing	155	6,277
Cleaning agents	201	201
Nanotechnology	522	522
Paint	670	670
Paper	57	57
Plastics	1,800	1,800
Pesticides	2,752	2,752
Pharmaceuticals and personal care	120	120
Transport	4,027	10,061
Aviation	3,541	3,541
Roads	549	549
Shipping	1,944	1,944
Military	4,606	4,606
Light pollution	1,631	1,631
Fast fashion	949	6,154
Environmental impacts	5,205	5,205
Society and culture	27	1,875
Warnings by the scientific community	1,848	1,848
See also	683	683
References	30	2,045
Bibliography	2,015	2,015
External links	1,626	1,626
Total	160,194	160,194

Wiki Education assignment: BISC 2 Genetics, Ecology, and Evolution

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 21 August 2023 and 15 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Vlo1989 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Pintobean9.

— Assignment last updated by Esuhanoble1 (talk) 21:35, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Removed further reading list

I've removed the further reading list as I think it's an arbitrary list and likely Global North focused. It will also become outdated quite fast:

Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Penguin Books, 2005 and 2011 (ISBN 9780241958681).
Georgian, Samuel; Hameed, Sarah; Morgan, Lance; Amon, Diva J.; Sumaila, U. Rashid; Johns, David; Ripple, William J. (2022). "Scientists' warning of an imperiled ocean". Biological Conservation. 272: 109595. Bibcode:2022BCons.27209595G. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109595. S2CID 249142365.
Goudie, Andrew (2006). The human impact on the natural environment: past, present, and future. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781405127042.
Ivanova, Diana; Stadler, Konstantin; Steen-Olsen, Kjartan; Wood, Richard; Vita, Gibran; Tukker, Arnold; Hertwich, Edgar G. (18 December 2015). "Environmental Impact Assessment of Household Consumption". Journal of Industrial Ecology. 20 (3): 526–536. doi:10.1111/jiec.12371. S2CID 155524615.
Lovelock, James (2009). The Vanishing Face of Gaia. Basic Books. ISBN 0465019072
The Garden of Our Neglect: How Humans Shape the Evolution of Other Species 5 July 2012 Scientific American
Sutherland W. et al. (2015). What Works in Conservation, Open Book Publishers, ISBN 9781783741571.
Ending the Colonization of the Non-Human World. Biological Conservation. 9 November 2022. EMsmile (talk) 11:29, 25 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Geography

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 * Sutherland W. et al. (2015). [http://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/347/what-works-in-conservation ''What Works in Conservation''], Open Book Publishers, {{ISBN|9781783741571}}.
 *[https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/biological-conservation/special-issue/10574WDL8SQ Ending the Colonization of the Non-Human World]. ''[[Biological Conservation (journal)|Biological Conservation]]''. 9 November 2022. [[User:EMsmile|EMsmile]] ([[User talk:EMsmile|talk]]) 11:29, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
+== Geography ==
+Humans activities and the major cause of environment disturbance make the project disturbance that same that also she gives some prevention major draw and opticals and  also [[Special:Contributions/2409:4042:2808:E8F1:580E:6AFF:FE85:7B31|2409:4042:2808:E8F1:580E:6AFF:FE85:7B31]] ([[User talk:2409:4042:2808:E8F1:580E:6AFF:FE85:7B31|talk]]) 08:33, 4 May 2024 (UTC)