Given hotter and wetter weather, existing animal populations face fragmented habitats as those habitats migrate due to those factors. Essentially animal populations are being pushed towards existing man-made obstacles.

You also have to remember that as people migrate from rural to urban areas, the suburbs expand outward into rural land as development to accommodate those new people takes place. This presents a huge issue regarding the cost to preserve open space as developers gobble up parcels.

It’s not like rural development is a non-issue, either, as warehousing and distribution centers have exploded in recent years in rural PA due to cheap land and relatively easy access to highways.