But their habitat and nesting sites are shrinking every year, due to building and re-creation along their coastal habitat.
This is because the species occurs in less than 5000 km2, and its range, available habitat, and population size are shrinking (BirdLife International 2004).
The animal is probably threatened with becoming extinct in the long run, since the size of the population is unknown so far and its habitat shrinks continuously.
While the population of gray wolves in Wisconsin is robust, the natural habitat of wolves is shrinking.
Their habitat is continually shrinking because of the clearing of forests and the encroachment of roads, and they are still vulnerable to poachers.
The habitat of sea turtles will also shrink.
P. manipurensis is listed as Vulnerable in IUCN's Red List, as its habitat is small, fragmented, and rapidly shrinking.
It is endemic to the tropical hardwood hammocks of Key Largo, where its habitat has shrunk by half since the 1920s, and the remainder is fragmented, thinned, and developed.
By the 1990s, the animal's habitat had shrunk to about three square miles, and the Key Largo woodrat was called "one of the rarest creatures on earth."
The natural habitats are shrinking.