A wetland being drained so a housing development can be built is an example of habitat destruction.
What is wetland?
Wetland is a "place in which the land is covered by water—salt, fresh, or somewhere in between—either seasonally or permanently".
What is habitat destruction?
Habitat destruction is "the elimination or alteration of the conditions necessary for animals and plants to survive, not only impacts individual species but the health of the global ecosystem".
What is housing development?
Housing development a "group of individual dwellings or apartment houses typically of similar design that are usually built and sold or leased by one management".
Hence, drained wetland to a housing development causes habitat destruction.
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