Bats prefer to roost in natural features like trees and caves, but as development has made those environments scarcer, some species have adapted to urban areas.

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He said the main cause of decline in wild bees, such as mining and mason species, was loss of habitat due to a variety of reasons including urban development.

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These groups have employed a strategy of attempting to overwhelm the USFW with proposals to list hundreds of plant and animal species that exist in abundance over large geographic areas that are home to oil and gas exploration, wind farm development, major solar installations, highway projects and other significant human development projects.

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The Endangered Species Act gets a lot of flack for its budget, its long project trajectories, and its ability to hinder development planned by businesses and landowners.

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