Imagine that you have bought…

Imagine that you have bought your perfect house. It's a nice house in a friendly and connected neighbourhood, the kitchen is organized just the way you like it, the windows let in just the right amount of light, and your bedroom is so comfortable that the first night after you move in you have the best sleep you've ever had in your life. When you get up in the morning, it's still dark and you don't realize why until you see a little light bobbing past the window that's attached to the ugliest fish you have ever seen in your life. That is an angler fish. Your perfect house is now at the bottom of the ocean. While you're inside it, you're fine. The second you step out the door, you're going to be crushed by the weight of all the water above you. So, you stay inside, in your perfect house, where no one can find you and you are very lonely.
Also, all your taps run with salt water and you're running out of food, because you're at the bottom of the ocean and it's a little hard to get groceries there.
The small area that would be counted as a "habitat" under these proposed changes, is that house at the bottom of the ocean. An immediate area with the bare "essentials" that are "directly" depended on for life processes isn't enough for, for example, migratory birds who might need to stop during migration to get food somewhere that isn't directly surrounding the place where they nested in the spring. Is a place where an animal goes to get food not part of their habitat? If the land just outside of "the area immediately surrounding [their] dwelling place" is suddenly hostile or pouring polluted water into their dwelling place, how is that protecting them?
Habitat fragmentation (a large habitat being broken up into parts that are no longer connected to each other) is another concern that comes to mind when reading the proposed redefining of "habitat". Breaking an ecosystem up into these "habitats" based on what an individual is "directly" dependent on invites habitat fragmentation if, for instance, there's just enough space between two "habitats" for a new casino. Habitat fragmentation disrupts ecosystems (when living things like animals, plants and microbes are interlinked with each other and their environments), reducing the number and diversity of species in fragments and creating situations such as bottleneck effects (a reduction in individuals leading to a reduction in genetic diversity) that lead to further issues down the line (Haddad et al., 2015).
In case it isn't clear, I disagree with "Proposed interim changes to the Endangered Species Act, 2007 and a proposal for the Species Conservation Act, 2025".