Overgrazing

Overgrazing, poor forest management practices, and agricultural and urban development have fragmented and degraded the Durangan ecosystems since the industrial revolution, and abuses continue today.

Wildflower hunting in Durango 2008

Overgrazing, poor forest management practices, and agricultural and urban development have fragmented and degraded the Durangan ecosystems since the industrial revolution, and abuses continue today.

Wildflower hunting in Durango 2008

Overgrazing had stripped off its thin grassy cover, and global warming had burned through its liquid insulation.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

Overgrazing had stripped off its thin grassy cover, and global warming had burned through its liquid insulation.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

Overgrazing had stripped off its thin grassy cover, and global warming had burned through its liquid insulation.

When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

Overgrazing is herbivory (animal comsumption of plants) that extracts an unsustainable yield of floral biomass from an ecosystem; however, the term is most often applied to the actions of wild or domesticated ungulates.

Overgrazing 2009

Overgrazing of historic human-created pastureland, especially irrigated or non-native grasslands, may lead to soil compaction, reduction in long-term grazing productivity and loss of topsoil.

Overgrazing 2009

Overgrazing of the forest floor vegetation, including the young regeneration of tree species, is a problem in some areas and a potential problem in all other areas.

Human impacts on the biodiversity of the Arctic 2009

Overgrazing or tilling the soft shales of ecoregions 43f and 43g risks wind and water erosion.

Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA) 2009

Overgrazing of arid scrubland prairie has stripped this now unproductive land in the Middle Atlas of Morocco.

Overgrazing 2009