Animals

__Animals__ good site for animal information http://www.smh.com.au/news/Environment/Warming-world-could-kill-off-arctic-animals/2005/01/30/1107020262017.html

Many animals are having to wake up from hibernation a lot sooner. Migrator birds are having to change their paths. Half of migratory birds (out of 305) tracked by Audubon Society are migrating 35 miles farther north for winter monthsto find colder climate. Purple finch spending winters 400 miles further north than previous The fox is not as threatened as the polar bear, they said, because the fox could switch to foraging on land more easily. The three foxes using the sea ice to survive the winter spent up to five months there, travelling up to 1,700 miles. there is not much food in the north arctic for polar bears

threaten the existence of polar bears and seals that live on the ice, which in turn would remove a major source of food for the indigenous communities who hunt them. Migratory birds will lose a vital breeding ground in the Arctic, affecting biodiversity around the globe From melting sea-ice throughout the Arctic to increases in infectious diseases and loss of food some small fish aren't reaching there full growth which means that the other animals that feed on them are not getting the right nutrients and are having to hunt more often Indigenous peoples such as the Eskimos in North America and Saami in Scandinavia could lose their traditional livelihoods, and their communities will be threatened by the thinning sea ice, melting glaciers and thawing permafrost. on average, ploar bears wiegh 55lb less than they did in the 1970s Global warming is changing the distribution, abundance and diversity of marine life [] ^good sight for ocean graph