Arctic Animals Endangered By Climate Change
The survival of the polar bear is threatened by climate change.
Arctic animals endangered by climate change. Rising sea levels changes in climate and precipitation patterns increasing severe weather events and loss of fish stocks birds and marine mammals. Barnacle geese pictured in the scientific base of Ny Alesund in the Svalbard archipelago. Four ice seals ringed bearded harp and ribbon seals.
Four whales gray beluga bowhead and narwhal. 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. The polar bear the walrus the Arctic fox and the beluga whale.
But the ringed seal the smallest Arctic seal species cannot. Three seabirds Kittlitzs murrelet spectacled eider and ivory gull. And two terrestrial mammals cariboureindeer and muskox.
Climate change poses a fundamental threat to the places species and peoples livelihoods WWF works to protect. Image source Polar Bear. Global warming may kill off polar bears in 20 years says WWF.
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. 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. Peter Prokosch GRID.
Polar bears for example depend on summer sea ice to hunt seals. Climate change is driving polar bears from the safety of sea ice and on to hazardous dry land and into more conflict with humans. 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.