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… on the region’s biodiversity. Direct threats include oil and gas exploitation, gold mining, logging, dam and road … dialogues have been established with the mining and the oil and gas sectors. 17 eco_networks_2004 13-01-2004 23:15 … – was an important source of income, overfishing and pollution cut yields dramatically in the course of the …

… from the impact of extractive industries, localised pollution, and changes to its chemistry (ocean acidification) … ficiently duplicative so that a single event, such as an oil spill, would not eradicate that diversity. Given the …

… of the impacts of local barriers (such as highways, oil pipelines, railway lines and canals) on the movements and … (Hunt et al. 1987; Yanes et al. 1995) and, in Alaska, oil pipelines have been elevated above the ground to provide … degradation. It has little influence on point sources of pollution, such as effluent pipes, sewers and drains. …

… harvested for timber (approximately 400,000km2), while oil and gas extraction has seen the drilling of 51,000 wells … access (Sawyer and Mayhood, 1998). With plans to maintain oil and gas production, an additional 137,000 wells will have …