Arctic Animals Endangered By Climate Change
Mon 31 Jan 2005 1044 EST.
Arctic animals endangered by climate change. The polar bear the walrus the Arctic fox and the beluga whale. Three seabirds Kittlitzs murrelet spectacled eider and ivory gull. Rising temperatures have led to ecological changes including the migration of Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha to Arctic rivers while behavioural changes in species include earlier breeding times for North American tree swallows.
Four whales gray beluga bowhead and narwhal. From polar bears in the Arctic to marine turtles off the coast of Africa our planets diversity of life is at risk from the changing climate. Bearded seals were given US.
Polar bears are listed as vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN with climate change a key factor in their decline. To adequately address this crisis we must urgently reduce carbon pollution and prepare for the consequences of global warming which we are. Endangered species protections in 2012 due to climate change.
In addition to increased rates of disease and degraded habitats climate change is also causing changes in species themselves which threaten their survival. And two terrestrial mammals cariboureindeer and muskox. B r a d l e y K l a p p e r i n G e n e v a.
Polar bears for example depend on summer sea ice to hunt seals. Today climate change is the biggest threat facing the Arctic and its wildlife. Animals in the Arctic including reindeer and golden eagles are migrating earlier due to climate change say researchers who have gathered a huge amount of data to study the behaviour of 86.
Changes in the cryosphere dominate the physical changes that already affect these animals but increasing air temperatures changes in precipitation a. With the Arctic winter of 2017-18 the warmest on record researchers are finding a troubling range of climate change impacts on wildlife including wolverines reindeer snowy owls and more. Adapt or die.