A new report highlights the lesser-known animals fighting threats caused by climate change
The flamingo. The Bicknell's thrush. The Irrawaddy dolphin. The Musk ox. The Hawksbill turtle.
These are a few of the "unsung" animals that are facing new threats due to climate change, according to a report released this month by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
The report, "Species Feeling the Heat: Connecting Deforestation and Climate Change," profiles more than a dozen animals impacted by factors such as changing land and sea temperatures; shifting rain patterns; exposure to new pathogens and disease; and increased threats of predation.
"The image of a forlorn looking polar bear on a tiny ice floe has become the public’s image of climate change in nature, but the impact reaches species in nearly every habitat in the world’s wild places," said Dr. Steven E. Sanderson, president and CEO of the WCS, in a press release.
"In fact, our own researchers are observing direct impacts on a wide range of species across the world."
GET INVOLVED
- Sign a WCS letter urging American lawmakers to increase conservation funding directed overseas to save global priority species in their natural habitats
- Analyze and reduce your impact on the environment with the National Grid Floe
- Protecting Polar Bears (December 3, 2009)
- Dethroning the Emperors of the South Pole (August 21, 2009)
- Slipping Away: The Polar Bear (November 17, 2009)
- Less Species = More Disease (December 10, 2009)
- Bye Bye Biodiversity (October 15, 2009)
- Exit Koala (November 19, 2009)
- The Rime of the Modern Mariner (November 10, 2009)
- Numbers Don't Lie (October 19, 2009)
- Farewell from Christmas Island (September 10, 2009)
- Last Days for the Leatherbacks (September 5, 2009)
- Last Chance to Save the Saola (September 4, 2009)
- Exit the Mangrove Dwellers (August 25, 2009)
- Atlantic Salmon Dying in Chile's Pacific (August 4, 2009)
- Extinction Crisis in Oceania (August 3, 2009)
- Gone in 75 Years: Polar Bears (June 29, 2009)
- The Albatross and the Rising Sea (February 12, 2009)
- Farewell to the Polar Bears (January 14, 2009)
0 comments:
Post a Comment