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In 2011 and 2012, scientists working on the banana river in florida recorded a dramatic increase in the number of manatee deaths. over the past 50 years, this area has also seen the human population increase by more than 500,000 people. it is believed that pollution from numerous sewage tanks leaked into the water, eliminating the manatees' food source, replacing it with an alga that is toxic to the manatee. this is an example of

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I believe that this is an example of human actions altering ecosystems with serious consequences.
Am sure that today, the vast majority of extinctions can be attributed to the environmental impacts generated by human activities. The major causes of extinction includes, habitat loss; where human activities destroy or change habitat so that it no longer supports the growth and the reproduction of a species.
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