| Climate change affects on penguins |
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| Wednesday, 25 March 2009 | |
 The penguins on the Antarctic suffer under climate change, concludes a study commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund. The report, Antarctic Penguins and Climate Change today at the climate conference in Bali cent shows how four populations of penguins in Antarctica by global warming under increasing pressure. The higher temperatures is 40 percent less sea ice off the west coast of Antarctica than 26 years ago. This has led to less krill, the main food of penguins, for example, the storm band. The number of chin-strap penguins took in some colonies with 30 to 66 percent, because the boy food shortage harder to survive. The same goes for the ass penguins, which are increasingly the subject declining krill stocks as overfishing their usual food sources does disappear. Some colonies of the emperor penguin, the largest penguin in the world in the last 50 years halved in size. Warmer winters and stronger winds mean that thinner ice earlier in the year break. As many eggs are lost before they chicks to survive independently. On the north coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, where warming is the strongest, names populations Adelie penguins-the last 25 years by 65 percent. Not only was their food more scarce by the disappearance of sea ice, moreover, the donkeys and the storm band penguins who thrive better at higher temperatures, in the field draw. "The food chain in Antarctica, and thus the survival of penguins and many other species, is inextricably linked with the future of sea ice," explains James Leap, Director-General of the International World Wildlife Fund. WWF calls on the members of the UN Climate on to accept a reduction in CO2 emissions by the industrialized countries of 30 per cent in 2020. This is vital to stop climate change and global greenhouse gas emissions around 2050 with 80 percent reduction. The warming at the Antarctic Peninsula occurs five times faster than the average global warming. The vast Southern Ocean has warmed up to a depth of 3000 meters. |
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