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Animal (Ecological) extinction

(I'm going to talk a little bit about the two because they are linked)

Climate change over the past ∼30 years has produced numerous shifts in
the distributions and abundances of specie

Rapid global warming caused the largest extinction event in the Earth’s
history, which wiped out the vast majority of marine and terrestrial
animals on the planet, scientists have found.

Over the past century, the modern world has warmed by around 1C due
to the release of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels such as
coal, oil and gas, rather than from volcanic eruptions.

This warming is already causing punishing heatwaves, flooding and


wildfires around the world, with scientists warning that the temperature
rise could reach 3C or more by the end of the century unless there are
immediate, radical reductions in emissions.

At the same time, Earth’s species are undergoing what some experts have
termed the “sixth great extinction” due to habitat loss, poaching, pollution
and climate change.

Up to half of plant and animal species in the world’s most naturally rich
areas, such as the Amazon and the Galapagos, could face local extinction
by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions
continue to rise unchecked.

“Hotter days, longer periods of drought, and more intense storms are
becoming the new normal, and species around the world are already
feeling the effects,

If there was a 4.5°Centigrade global mean temperature rise, the climates


in these areas are projected to become unsuitable for many the plants and
animals that currently live there.

Posible consecuences will be:

Up to 90 percent of amphibians, 86 percent of birds and 80 percent of


mammals could potentially become locally extinct in the Miombo
Woodlands in Southern Africa.
The Amazon could lose 69 percent of its plant species.
In southwest Australia 89 percent of amphibians could become locally
extinct.
60 percent of all species are at risk of localized extinction in Madagascar.
The Fynbos in the Western Cape Region of South Africa, which is
experiencing a drought that has led to water shortages in Cape Town,
could face localized extinctions of a third of its species, many of which
are unique to that region.

Marine animals are disappearing, too


The loss of animal species in terrestrial environments has been well
documented and is continuing. Loss of species in marine environments
has been slower than in terrestrial systems, but appears to be increasing
rapidly.

scientist discover that animal species that interact with a low diversity of
plant species have narrow climatic niches and are most vulnerable to
climate change.
Some are using more energy than they consume
Four of nine bears in study lost 10% or more of their body mass in 8 to 11
day period
The bears need sea ice to hunt seals that make up more than the 95% of
their diet, but sea ice is decreasing by 14 % each decade due to the global
warming this means they have to travel farther to find seals.
Sea levels are rising and oceans are becoming warmer

As a comment or suggest you can see the documentary the wolfs of


Chernobyl witch proves that wit out humans eve radioactive animals
could survive so

As a conclusion I can say human are dangerous for earth (so mean stupid)

Drought = Sequias
Poaching = Caza furtiva

Coal =carbón

El fynbos es la formación vegetal más extendida de la región del Cabo en


Sudáfrica
Jericho rose dries

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