Why are the factors that drive habitat loss?

Explanation

(i) Development of human society is inevitable. Natural habitat are destroyed for the purpose of settlement, agriculture, mining, industries and constructions of highways. Species are forced to adapt to the changes in the environment or move to other place. If not, they become victim to predation, starvation, disease and eventually die or results in human animal conflict.
(ii) Overpopulation, urbanization, industrialization and agricultural advancements require additional land, water and raw materials every year. This is done through fragmentation or destruction of natural habitats by filling wetlands, ploughing grasslands ,cutting down trees, forest, desalting rivers, constructing transport ways, caving mountains, extracting, ores , etc.
(iii) The most dramatic example of habitat loss comes from the tropical rainforests 14% of the earth's tropical forests, is not more than 6% now. The Amazon rainforest, a vast area, harbouring millions of species, also called "Lungs of the planet" is destroyed and being replaced for agriculture and human settlements.
(iv) Kodaikanal and Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu have been destroyed rapidly for human occupancy. Loss of habitat results in annihilation of plants, microorganisms and forcing out animals from their habitats.