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What Can We Do to Protect Red Squirrels in The Cairngorm National Park?

It is no secret that we humans have destroyed the environment for years. It is now that some of us try to make everyone aware of the affects that our lack of diligence on the environment and what happens if we do not make changes now and try to stop the progress of global warming . Our focus, or drive, is the idea of what kind of world we leave to our children. We must also look at how the global warming that our animals now and in the future if we do not stop and take the necessary environmental changes.

There are numerous studies to be conducted and were not carried out, if just animal behavior and characteristics in order to gauge the state of the environment. These studies show that changed our world in unnatural ways and it is disturbing. Consider that at the present state of things, reindeer no longer walk the places that they are doing currently, they disappear.

Marmot hibernation no longer the same amount of time they are accustomed. Actually, compared to thirty years ago, they are hibernating ends three weeks earlier. The Canadian red squirrels are breeding 18 days earlier. Studies show that the red fox is moving north and invading the territory of the Arctic cousin. The polar bears are not as healthy as 20 years ago, and they are thinner.

If we look at the sea and our creatures there, we also see changes that should cause alarm bells. Coral reefs are expected to increase by up to one third in size. Elephant seal pups are thinner because their prey is migration to cooler waters. Our turtles are changing behavior as well, is the loggerhead eggs 10 days earlier and the tortoise Hawkbill young are more females then males due to temperature changes.

Birds are changing their diets to insects that consume leaves were not treated with high levels of pesticides. What does all this mean? It means that global warming could cause many of our species is endangered if not extinct.

The melting ice, the warm seas, the dessert spread any risk to our animals. These changes, no matter how subtle, have a dramatic impact on the lives of our wildlife. In the sea the disappearance of the tiny organisms that caused the larger creatures feed marine life to migrate north.

When you consider that global warming plays a major role in our weather and climate, destroying the increased storm activity, the breeding colonies of albatross, already battle the possibility of captured and killed by fishing boats. Rising sea levels to extinguish the nesting sites of sea turtles, seals and wading birds are also destroyed in the list of species that are affected by their habitats.

The thinking of nature is the source of change and adaptation, the changes that take place are in our environment due to global warming will only happen fast. The speed is what makes it difficult for animals to be effective, and this will cause us to lose a large part of our wildlife. Can you imagine a world without reindeer? What about the day the Sahara desert covers all of Africa and does not make the migration of birds?

These are changes we can see every day and we must start to respect them. The predicted increase in sea level should be linked by an amazing three feet with the disturbances on the Earth life support systems, our wake-up call.

While you can watch your back window and see these changes take place, the full impact of waiting until 2100 if the predictions of scientists, and we do not change our ways. Think about it is, 2100 is less than one hundred years away. You and I would probably not be here, but our grandchildren will have and what we leave for them? To stop Global warming to participate in it in order to save the earth, our children and our animals. They need us.