climate change. More common storms, droughts, heat waves, melting glaciers and warmer oceans, can directly harm the animals, and destroy their habitat. For example, the giant panda from China is being threatened by loss of habitat and the lost of the bamboo by climate change. According to the article, “Climate Change Threatens Giant Pandas’ Bamboo Buffet and Survival” from the “Targeted News Services”: In this week 's Nature Climate Change, an international journal, scientists from Michigan State University
these creatures but as long as there is a start, it can only go forward. For years it seems that polar bears have been the poster child for endangered species and global warming. When there is a conversation about saving animals, polar bears are always the first animals that come up. Though the topic of saving them is highly debated, they are still dying off at a rapid rate. The area on which polar bears are able to hunt is shrinking every year. This platform, of course, is a rock of ice that allows
just five of the main reasons humans can be to blame for the extinction and endangerment of animals. I have researched about the following species, the Philautus poppiae frog native to Sri Lanka, the Asian elephant, the Siberian tiger, giant panda and the polar bear. Each species seems to be declining at a rapid rate, but why? Some would suggest that animal endangerment and extinction is a natural process, which to some extent is true, but over the last century humans have watched as animals have
Could you imagine a world without tigers, the giant panda, or the rhinoceros? What a paler place it would be. Astonishing amounts of animals are considered critically endangered and near extinction. If we would like these animals to be around for future generations, we cannot hesitate in our efforts to help them. Rhinoceros - Sadly, the White, Black and Javan rhinoceros are all on the critically endangered list. The Indonesian Javan Rhino is in particularly bad shape with having less than 60
Global warming is the term used to describe the rise in the Earth’s temperature observed over the last century. It has had significant effects on the polar ice caps, as the rising temperature is causing them to melt. It has also been linked to rising sea levels as the rise has been quicker than ever recorded in the last century. It is believed to be caused by increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, due to burning fossil fuels, other human activities and volcanic activity. It also
and I noticed how amazing it is. Also, it has polar bear and giant panda which is not existed in Los Angeles zoo. San Diego zoo divided to seven spaces and section, such as Panda Canyon, Asia Passage, and Northern Frontier in each corner. This huge zoo looks like unorganized circle that filled with many animal cages, and the sidewalk is surrounded by trees. Most animals have uncovered cage, so it is kind of adaption for animals. For instance, the panda lived in outdoor exhibit, and they offered water
fires, agriculture, ranching, logging for timber, and degradation due to climate change are all reasons that the forests are currently struggling. Examples of animals affected by this are: chimpanzees, giant pandas, macaws, jaguars, orangutans, African wild dogs, red pandas, tigers, and brown bears. Deforestation, however, does not only affect the animals and plants that live there, it also takes a toll on us as humans. It provides many resources to such as fresh water, food, medicine, and oxygen
“The polar bear, while surviving in drastically reduced numbers, is already effectively extinct in its natural habitat—and no amount of change can save it. Scientists estimate that just 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears survive in the wild,”(Walker, Gabrielle and Sir David King). Global warming is affecting not only polar bears but also many other species that are going extinct. Habitats are destroyed and islands are invaded by the sea water, slowly sinking. Every living thing and environment on this
"Panda?" Megumareta didn't know much of the outside world. From birth, excluding the few hours she spend on the submarine, she spend her entire life on the four islands. She didn't know much about animals, so she assumed that the white bear was a panda, since there were pandas in the bamboo forest. Sure, there were brown bears, brown bears, but her place wasn't a arctic. Besides, the bears never went into the sunlight, they lived on the second island. "Don't you mean polar bear?" Megumareta
sources of food and a stable habitat just like humans, but the gases have become a disruption. Bears are one of the many animals that have faced the effects of greenhouse gases. The giant panda list as the most endangered amongst the bear family. As a result, the effects that greenhouse gases have will only make it worse for them. Pandas slowly lose their food sources that they need to survive. Pandas only eat certain species of bamboo, but those bamboos have begun to disappear because of the greenhouse