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Experts in the UK reporting on August 16, 2011 state that global warming-related malaria is reducing wildlife populations, with 30% of UK house sparrows that are infected with malaria as well as two-thirds of the country’s 38,000 tawny owls being afflicted thus far.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2025988/Malaria-killing-sparrows-owls-mosquitoes-invade.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/8700698/Malaria-claiming-more-British-birds.html

On August 12, 2011, the Australian government released a first-ever report on water quality in the Great Barrier Reef, finding that 28,000 kilograms of chemical pesticides from agricultural runoff enter the area annually along with 14 million metric tons of contaminating sediment that originates primarily from livestock cattle farms.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-13/great-barrier-reef-report/2837758
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3292698.htm
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/great-barrier-reef-report-card-released/story-e6frf7jx-1226113977703