Q.What are the factors that drive habitat loss?

Step 1. The chapter identifies development of human society as the root driver: natural habitats are destroyed for the purposes of settlement, agriculture, mining, industries and highway construction.

Step 2. Behind this specific land conversion sits a broader structural pressure: over-population, urbanisation, industrialisation and agricultural advancement together require additional land, water and raw materials every single year, and meeting that demand is only possible through fragmenting or destroying more natural habitat.

Step 3. The chapter lists the concrete mechanisms through which this destruction happens: filling wetlands, ploughing grasslands, cutting down trees and forests, desilting rivers, constructing transport ways, excavating mountains, extracting ores, changing river courses, and filling seashores. …

List the chapter's direct land-use drivers of habitat loss and the underlying population/urbanisation/industrialisation pres …

• Naming only the immediate land uses (agriculture, mining) without connecting them to the underlying population/urbanisation pressure the chapter identifies as the root driver. …