Habitat Loss - Hunting & Harvesting

Question 0

The brown bear: (4)

Answer 0

Decrease in numbers due to hunting, trapping and poisoning due to threat to livestock.

Lost from Denmark 350 years ago.
Lost from Britain by the Middle Ages.
Lost from the German lowlands by 1600.

Question 1

Koalas: (4)

Answer 1

1920 - Hunted for fur, resulting in near extinction.

1924 - 2 million skins exported, leaving the species extinct in SA and near extinction in NSW.

1930 - Declared protected, however Eucalyptus forests where not.

Habitat clearance for farmland and urban areas, drought, disease and bush fires resulted in a series of small, fragmented habitats and populations.

Question 2

The wolf: (3)

Answer 2

Decrease in numbers due to trapping, hunting and poisoning because of threat to livestock.

1800 - Eradicated from the UK, France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany & Poland.
1973 - Large populations remained only in Eastern Europe.

Question 3

Both the wolf and the brown bear are

Answer 3

Recolonising the Alps.