At one time Mount Lofty was a range covered with wildlife and landforms. Nowadays Mount Lofty Range is uncared for and unfortunately causing it to slowly disappear. There has been amounts of trees cut down for industrial purpose when they cut down the trees it takes away homes of these birds, and that means the birds have nowhere to live. There are only around five hundred birds left in the Mount Lofty Range areas that were once covered in wood. The woods are being cut down and that will make the birds extinct. On top of the birds becoming extinct, numerous other animals will also become extinct in the Mount Lofty Ranges. This is a horrific loss of the bird’s habitat. The birds and other wildlife depend on it to survive, for their food, water, …show more content…
This is truly a heartbreaking ordeal, causing a lot of birds to slowly die off over time. When Europeans settled there, eleven species have become extinct.(paying the extinction debt) Now there is only fifty percent of wildlife had become threatened, researchers estimated that in two hundred years they will be doomed to become extinct. There are multiple different bird species that will become extinct. Various birds such as the Scarlet Robin, Diamond Firetail, Crested Shriketit, The Eastern Spinebill, and the Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo, at one point these groups of birds were considered common, but that is not true anymore. Over the years, the Mount Lofty Range is decreasing, and soon it will be completely gone. Proof of this is clearly shown as the population of the birds has dropped largely from sixty percent to forty percent in only ten years. They estimate that within the next ten years, seventy different types of birds will be disappearing fast and more than likely become extinct. Over the years Mount Lofty Range has lost over thirty percent of its original vegetation, along with much of its wildlife and a large amount of the woodlands have been