After the boom-bust-boom of the fifties and sixties, the borough went into a third and more severe decline again in the mid-1970s along with much of the Rust Belt so that population was just 2,804 at the 2000 census. Now in the 2011 Brownsville still has a handful of buildings condemened or just borded up.
Threats to Biodiversity. The primary threats to the savanna biome are humans (for example, poachers are killing elephants for their ivory tusks and hunting animals to the brink of extinction) and global climate change.
Humans create savannas by burning grasslands and cutting down trees so they can plant crops. Large animals, like elephants, can turn a forest into a savanna by knocking trees down, stripping the bark from the trees, and tramping on tree seedlings. WEATHER: An