There is indeed evidence that they were hunted and their preferred habitats destroyed.

On Mars, the landing party find the automated habitat destroyed, and expect their own deaths by suffocation.

Now, with its habitat largely destroyed, it is also critically endangered.

Due to humans' propensity to shape and modify their environment, the habitat of other species often become altered or destroyed as a result of human actions.

Why destroy natural habitat?

When a species is listed by the state as endangered or threatened, it cannot be killed or its habitat destroyed without permission of state environmental officials.

"In the 1960's and 70's, they had been overhunted and their habitats destroyed."

"We still think the habitats destroyed themselves," Parker Higgens said.

With their habitat, including most of their food resources, effectively destroyed, the ruffed lemurs of the forest broadened their diet, remaining surprisingly frugivorous.

The natural structures and habitats destroyed or damaged included coral reefs, mangroves, beaches and seagrass beds.