Relier Pairs loose of biodiversityVersion en ligne Look at the picture and match with the sentences par María Cristina Romo Landázuri 1 2 3 4 5 6 Overkill Excessive hunting of any one species can throw the food chain way off course. Often habitats are demolished, for example to make way for buildings and roads. A specific type of habitat loss is deforestation, or cutting down trees. Destruction of natural habitats in order to extract minerals or clear land for farming. This displaces a lot of animal species and destroys whatever cannot run away from this invasion. Pollution contaminates natural ecosystems and again poses a threat. If you introduce an animal that did not evolve along with the natural surroundings, it could have terrible effects on the other species in the area. Humans are reproducing at a rapid rate that is becoming difficult for the environment to support.