Climate change brings as one of the consequences the problems to survive for many species of animals, from penguins in Antarctica to bees around the world and according to Mar Gómez in the Twitter thread, thousands of species are threatened. Currently, about 5200 species are endangered according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which clarified that 11% belong to birds, 20% of reptiles, 34% of fish and 25% of amphibians and mammals.
Sea turtles are endangered by rising seas and coastal flooding floods flood the beaches on which they lay their eggs. It was also discovered that hot sand influences more female turtles being born. In the Western Antarctic Peninsula, Penguin Adelia decreased its colonies by at least 80% since 1970. Temperature changes and sea ice affect your stay.
Corals are not only an ecosystem that feeds despite and many species, but is a living being that remains on reefs and reefs around the world are bleaching. In 2016, in Australia, the Great Barrier Reef suffered its worst bleaching. In the face of rising temperatures around the world, bees are affected because they have to migrate to colder climates and spring flowers bloom earlier than normal, giving them less time to pollinate. One of the species most affected by this same reason are polar bears, which in the face of thaw their natural habitat is lost and in this way they are running out of food and will have to die or emigrate to other areas, but nothing will continue in the same way for them.
The snow leopard inhabits the mountains with more than 3,000 meters of altitude in Central Asia, such as those of the Himalayas, an ecosystem very vulnerable to the effects of climate change and only 4,000 specimens are released.
Another cause that harms many species are deforestation, illegal trafficking and exploitation of their natural habitat, due to the rapid expansion of vast oil palm plantations and because of this the Borneo Orangutan lost its species by more than 80% in the last 75 years.
The increase in temperature, drought, urbanization of the territory and the development of agriculture will bring the end of the Mediterranean butterflies that inhabit Spain.According to research published in the journal ‘Nature Climate Change’, the Iberian Lynx will be extinct in 50 years due to the climate change that plagues its species.
Finally, whales need ocean temperatures not to rise because their survival is linked to them for migration, food and reproductive habits
