Arctic Animals Endangered By Climate Change
The report highlights climate change impacts on 17 species.
Arctic animals endangered by climate change. The Arctic is warming at approximately twice the speed of the global average which is shrinking. Animals across the Arctic are changing where and when they breed migrate and forage in response to climate change says a new study unveiling the massive scale of. This article is more than 15 years old.
To adequately address this crisis we must urgently reduce carbon pollution and prepare for the consequences of global warming which we are. 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. Four whales gray beluga bowhead and narwhal.
Arctic Animals and a Changing Climate Learn about the effects of a changing climate on the Arctic ecosystem and four of its well-known mammals. But the ringed seal the smallest Arctic seal species cannot. And two terrestrial mammals cariboureindeer and muskox.
Climate change is taking place more rapidly and severely in the Arctic than anywhere on the globe exposing Arctic vertebrates to a host of impacts. Climate change poses a fundamental threat to the places species and peoples livelihoods WWF works to protect. As Arctic sea ice vanishes bearded seals may vanish along with it.
Image source Polar Bear. Bearded seals were given US. Climate change is driving polar bears from the safety of sea ice and on to hazardous dry land and into more conflict with humans.
Rising sea levels changes in climate and precipitation patterns increasing severe weather events and loss of fish stocks birds and marine mammals. 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. Barnacle geese pictured in the scientific base of Ny Alesund in the Svalbard archipelago.