Impact of habitat loss on species

Growing need for adaptations

Our planet is warming faster than at any time in the past 10,000 years. With these
changes, species have to adapt to new climate patterns (variations in rainfall;
longer, warmer summers etc).
The fate of many species in a rapidly warming world will likely depend on their
ability to migrate away from increasingly less favorable climatic conditions to new
areas that meet their physical, biological, and climatic needs.

A growing need for species to adapt to a changing world

Global warming is the resulting from human emissions of greenhouse gases.
The consequences include habitat loss; shifts in climatic conditions and in habitats
that surpass migrational capabilities; altered competitive relationships.

Greenhouse gases absorb infrared radiation and trap the heat in the
atmosphere. Over time, the amount of energy sent from the sun to the
Earths surface should be about the same as the amount of energy radiated
back into space, leaving the temperatura of the Earths surface roughly
constant.
Many gases exhibit these greenhouse properties. Some of them occur in
nature (water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide), while
others are exclusively human-made (like gases used for aerosols).

Greenhouse gases and climate change

Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases generally produce an increase in the
average temperature of the Earth so rising temperatures may, produce changes in
weather, sea levels, and land use patterns, commonly referred to as climate
change.
World carbon dioxide emissions are expected to increase by 1.9 percent annually
between 2001 and 2025. Much of the increase in these emissions is expected to
occur in the developing world where emerging economies, such as China and
India, fuel economic development with fossil energy.

Changes already underway

Evidence suggests that the warming of the past century already has resulted in
marked ecological changes, including changes in growing seasons, species
ranges, and patterns of seasonal breeding.
Animals and plants that are suited to cooler climates are moving to polewards or
uphill when the climate becomes even just that little bit warmer.

This process has been observed in many places in the Alps, in mountainous
Queensland in Australia, and in the misty forests of Costa Rica.
Fish in the North Sea have been observed moving northwards too fish stocks
that used to be common around Cornwall have moved as far north as the Shetland
and Orkney Islands.

Selection of the fastest?

WWF scientists have estimated that most species on this planet (including plants)
will have to "move" faster than 1,000 meters per year if they are to keep within the
climate zone, which they need for survival.
Many species will not be able to redistribute themselves fast enough to keep up
with the coming changes.
These species, as far as we know given present knowledge, may well become
extinct.

How does this affect us? and opinion

When the animals start to move to a better place it will came a day in which they'll
might be outside our houses and what will people do? Kill them, it would be a
massive extinction, and future generations will see these wonderful creatures
behind a screen.
It's not fair destroying their habitats just for human selfishness, because it really
affects them and by far-reaching will
affect us to.