ABSTRACT
Human societies come into competition with other life forms, setting the stage for increasingly detrimental outcomes resulting in species loss. As with humans, other species must also compete for their share of this important, but scarce, resource. Water scarcity has adverse effects on the survival of wildlife populations. The chapter examines the relationships between measures of direct human activities, ecological/environmental conditions affected by those activities, and the number of species under existential threat across individual countries. Living beings, whether animals or humans, depend on their habitat to meet their basic needs including food, water, and air to breathe, and changes in their environment may affect their survival. Human activities might cause an alteration in the environment that negatively impacts wild populations. Industries might divert water from streams, changing the nature of water environments downstream. Measures of species threat help to identify an important point in the process of loss.
