Global warming could devastate animal habitats
31 August, 2000
A new report by researchers for the World Wide Fund for Nature
says global warming could fundamentally transform a third of the
world's plant and animal habitats by the end of this century.
They say that unless the warming trend is stopped, many species
are facing rapid extinction.
Matt Peacock reports.
Up to seventy percent of habitats in northern latitudes like
Canada, Russia and Scandanavia could be destroyed, says the World
Wildlife Fund, where the impact of global warming will be the
most rapid...but species throughout the world, including
Australia, will be affected. Already, polar bears and other
species in the northern tundra and under pressure...so too are
butterflies in Europe, and the sugar maple tree in America. In
some areas, species will need to migrate ten times faster than
they did during the last ice age simply to survive, with some
doomed to extinction even assuming a reduction in the current
growth rate of carbon dioxide production. Matt Peacock London
News by Radio Australia
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