Last month, the trump administration refused to list the Pacific walrus as an endangered species. The need to place these walruses on the list has become a growing focus for many conservation biologists due to the uncertainties surrounding how climate change could impact walrus populations. The Pacific walrus depends on the currently receding sea ice for breeding, feeding, nursing their young, and avoiding predators. With the current climate change models, its predicted that the sea ice the walruses so heavily depend on will be non-existent in the summer by the 2030s. These walruses live in the Bering and Chukchi seas between Alaska and Russia. Without ice in this area, the walruses would have to take feeding breaks on land, which is farther
