Analyze how the information in paragraphs 6-8 refines the claims the author makes in the first paragraph. Provide one example from the text and explain how
the textual evidence supports your answer.

Claim: The main threat to these species, and biodiversity in general, is habitat loss and fragmentation .

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

man vs. nature - first choice