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Endangered animals of the poles

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All the species living at the poles are inter related.

When you see a Polar bear, you

see a whole food chain

along with it.

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• Earth's polar environments host rich webs of plants and animals that face the change in clime, and are endangered.

• Some of such endangered species are featured here…

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• Walrus are called the bottom feeders, and are in trying times because of the melting ice that deplete the seafloor food, algae.

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• Another animal that could see problems as food on the sea floor decreases is the spectacled eider an Arctic sea duck.

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• Polar Bear is one of the Arctic mammals most sensitive to climate change, because of their reliance on a sea ice habitat.

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• And the Seal, that is fast reducing in quantity as the ice melts, makes life tough for the Bears….

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As the polar bears depend on Seals entirely for their food.

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• The sand flea, lives in the water just below the sea ice and depends on the ice's microscopic inhabitants as its source of food & are at risk as temperatures rise.

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• Diatoms (Planktons) are fast declining as the water under the ocean in the poles are getting warmer which is bad other living things that depend on them for food.

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They are the principal food source for many animals

krill is apparently the key species of populations declining heavily that depend on sea ice

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When the ice disappears, so do they.

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• The dissolved CO2 makes the water in the ocean more acidic hindering the development of shells for these creatures, and they are at high risk.

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• Although it is inevitable that some flora and fauna will go extinct in the coming years, as the climate gets warmer….

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Experts agree that the poles will not become a dead zone. There will still be life, but the residents will be different ….

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And we shall get accustomed to it. That’s a different story… if we cant stop the melting ice/raising temperatures, at least we can/MUST try to delay/postpone it..