The Negative Influence Of Climate Change In The Giant Panda

Climate Change is severely affecting animals that rely on land and specific food sources. This is true because once an animals land is destroyed it removes their food source as well. For example the Giant Panda's diet revolves around bamboo. Now that climate change is ruining bamboo forests the panda is left with little to no food. This forces them to migrate from their low elevation habitats, to higher elevations like mountains. Although this may provide more bamboo it isolates the already endangered, Giant Panda populations from each other. The higher elevations also bring a more rough terrain, which then causes the panda to spend far more energy searching for food. Considering bamboo has almost no nutritional value the panda needs to spend most of its energy simply eating, not traveling over rough terrain searching. That's just one animal whose habitat loss also affects their food source. The loss of these animals also economically affects us. The main way this happens is by leaving us with a loss of food. For example Polar Bears diet heavily relies on seals. Of course they need ice to hunt these seals, and now that climate change is melting ice caps they don't have the land it takes to hunt seals. Once …show more content…
For example sea turtles have what you could call an "imprinted memory," meaning they instinctively return to the same nesting beach they were born at, to lay eggs of their own. Climate change is now taking away the beaches sea turtles have been returning to for generations. This happens through sea level rise and erosion. This is greatly affecting sea turtle populations by removing the land they need to lay eggs, but also by affecting the gender ratio of sea turtles. When temperatures rise, it causes the sand on the remaining beaches temperature to rise. Sea turtles berry eggs in sand, so the warmer sand heats the berried eggs. This causes a majority of female sea turtles to