| It is not a secret that we humans have been | | | | our animal species to become endangered if not |
| destroying the environment for years. It is now that | | | | extinct. |
| some of us are trying to make all people aware of the | | | | The melting ice, the warm seas, the spreading dessert |
| affects that our lack of care has had on the | | | | are all threats to our animals. These changes, no |
| environment and what will happen if we do not make | | | | matter how subtle have a dramatic influence on the |
| changes now and try to stop the progress of global | | | | lives of our wildlife. In the sea the disappearance of the |
| warming. | | | | tiny organisms that the larger creatures feed off of is |
| Our focus, or drive, is the thought of what type of | | | | causing the sea life to migrate northward. |
| world are we leaving our children. We also need to be | | | | Keeping in mind that global warming plays a huge part |
| looking at how global warming is affecting our animals | | | | in our weather and climate, the increased storminess |
| now and in the future if we do not stop and make the | | | | destroys the breeding colonies of the albatross that |
| needed environmentally safe changes. | | | | already battle the possibility of being captured and killed |
| There are numerous studies that are being conducted | | | | by fishing boats. The rise in sea levels wipe out the |
| and have been conducted where watching animal | | | | nesting sites of the sea turtles, seals and wading birds |
| behavior and traits to measure the status of the | | | | are also on the list of species to be affected by their |
| environment. These studies are showing that our Earth | | | | habitats being destroyed. |
| is changing in unnatural ways and it is disturbing. Think | | | | Thought the very source of nature is change, and |
| about the fact that right now as things stand, reindeer | | | | adaptation, the changes that are taking place in our |
| will no longer wander the places they currently do, they | | | | environment due to global warming are just happening |
| will disappear. | | | | to fast. The speed is what makes it difficult for the |
| Marmots no longer hibernate the same amount of time | | | | animals to adapt effectively and this will cause us to |
| that they used to. Actually compared to thirty years | | | | loose a lot of our wildlife. Can you imagine a world with |
| ago, they are ending hibernation three weeks earlier. | | | | no reindeer? What about the day that the Sahara |
| The Canadian red squirrel is breeding 18 days earlier. | | | | dessert covers all of Africa and makes migration |
| Studies are showing that the red fox is moving north | | | | impossible for birds? |
| and invading the territory of its Arctic cousin. Polar | | | | These are changes that we can see everyday and |
| bears are not as healthy as they were 20 years ago | | | | we need to start paying attention to them. The |
| and they are thinner. | | | | predicted elevation of sea level by an amazing three |
| If we look at the sea and our creatures there we also | | | | feet coupled with the disruptions to the Earth life |
| see changes that should cause alarm. Coral reefs are | | | | support systems should be our wake up call. |
| expected to increase by up to a third in size. Elephant | | | | While you can look out your back window and see |
| seal pups are thinner because their prey is migrating to | | | | these changes taking place, the full effect will be seen |
| cooler waters. Our turtles are changing behavior as | | | | by the year 2100 if the predictions of scientist come |
| well, the loggerhead is laying eggs 10 days earlier and | | | | through and we do not change our ways. Think about |
| the Hawkbill turtle hatchlings are having more females | | | | is, 2100 is less then one hundred years away. You and |
| then males due to temperature changes. | | | | I would probably not be here, but our grandchildren will |
| Birds are changing their diets to insects that do not | | | | and what will we have left for them? Help stop global |
| consume leaves that have been treated with high | | | | warming, do your part to save the Earth, our children |
| amounts of pesticides. What does all of this mean? It | | | | and our wildlife. They need us. |
| means that global warming is going to cause many of | | | | |