Throughout our lifetime, we have seen penguins a time or two whether it be in a zoo, on television, in a magazine, etc. We know cute and funny they look when they walk (waddle), and how they travel thousands of miles to find food for their chicks. Now, look past all the facts we know about penguins. Instead; look at what actually matters, look at the risk of emperor, king, adelie, etc. penguins will become extinct if nothing changes in the near future. These once cute and cuddly looking animals could become just a thought that passed through somebody’s mind. Climate change is the central factor for causing all the endangerment. Month by month penguins are losing their food supply, which is slowly diminishing, the habitat is being reduced that
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In this case machinery doesn’t have anything to do with the dropping numbers of penguin species. This time, it's ‘mother nature’ to blame. Now think of when it snows during the winter, some of us wish that the snow would stay forever. Instead, it quickly melts by warming temperature and the sun coming out. Rather of thinking of what a regular snowfall looks like, think of what a habitat looks like for a typical penguin. Usually extremely cold and a whole lot of ice and snow. Never really seems that the ice and snow in those cold places seemed to melt. The past few years that snow and ice have been slowly disappearing due to hot temperatures not usually common in those habitats. Breeding grounds are the main worry scientists fear for penguins. Beatrice Asuncion says in his article that the iceberg known as B09B iceberg crashed back in 2010. With an area of about 1,120 square miles or 2,900 square kilometres, the penguins are forced to walk almost 37 miles just so they could access their food. Some scientists claim that if the iceberg doesn't move anytime soon or if the penguins continue to starve to the point of having no energy to reproduce, in twenty years time the Adelie penguins would no longer exist. According to Chris Fogwill, a co-author of the study, a lot of penguin casualties have been recorded and most of them are bodies of the young. "We saw a …show more content…
We all need to be aware of global warming concerns and how they affect the world around us. The penguins are just one more element in our world that is adversely affected by it. That is why we all need to take responsibility for what we contribute to our environment. By taking steps individually to reduce global warming, we can create a collective effort that is going to make a difference. As a result of this climate change, penguins, and even all other animals across the globe, could face the absolute worse:
In this case machinery doesn’t have anything to do with the dropping numbers of penguin species. This time, it's ‘mother nature’ to blame. Now think of when it snows during the winter, some of us wish that the snow would stay forever. Instead, it quickly melts by warming temperature and the sun coming out. Rather of thinking of what a regular snowfall looks like, think of what a habitat looks like for a typical penguin. Usually extremely cold and a whole lot of ice and snow. Never really seems that the ice and snow in those cold places seemed to melt. The past few years that snow and ice have been slowly disappearing due to hot temperatures not usually common in those habitats. Breeding grounds are the main worry scientists fear for penguins. Beatrice Asuncion says in his article that the iceberg known as B09B iceberg crashed back in 2010. With an area of about 1,120 square miles or 2,900 square kilometres, the penguins are forced to walk almost 37 miles just so they could access their food. Some scientists claim that if the iceberg doesn't move anytime soon or if the penguins continue to starve to the point of having no energy to reproduce, in twenty years time the Adelie penguins would no longer exist. According to Chris Fogwill, a co-author of the study, a lot of penguin casualties have been recorded and most of them are bodies of the young. "We saw a …show more content…
We all need to be aware of global warming concerns and how they affect the world around us. The penguins are just one more element in our world that is adversely affected by it. That is why we all need to take responsibility for what we contribute to our environment. By taking steps individually to reduce global warming, we can create a collective effort that is going to make a difference. As a result of this climate change, penguins, and even all other animals across the globe, could face the absolute worse: