Animals in the Arctic and Climate Change.

I’ve re-written the paragraph about Arctic Animals and how climate change is affecting them.

Many different living animals or plants respond differently to climate change. Some animals react quickly and change things such as behaviour. Others change things they do slowly to cope with the changes. Animals that live in the Arctic have already got to cope with difficult weather so climate change problems make it extra difficult for them. Climate change is making different animals move to areas of the arctic they wouldn’t usually live. This affects the animals that are already living there as they aren’t used to sharing their home with those animals.

The amount of birds in the Arctic is getting less each day because of climate change. Birds go to the Arctic to nest because there aren’t many predators. However now that the ice is melting and there’s more green land the number of predators is going up and birds are having their eggs stolen more often. Birds are migrating to the Arctic earlier because of temperature change.

The change in temperature is making icy layers in the snow which makes it hard for reindeer to feed. This means they will starve and more will die.

You can only find polar bears in the Arctic. This means climate change can make them go extinct. Every part of a polar bear’s life has been affected. They hunt on the sea ice for seals and this is melting, making polar bears go hungry. Changes in the snow changes how they can breed. Polar bears are at the biggest risk from all these changes.