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This page will be about why we need the animals and how habitat loss is involved with climate change. We hope you enjoy.
Climate change and habitat loss
Climate change is an awful thing that is destroying creatures homes! This will be about why we need the animals and how awful climate change is.
We need land animals!
Climate change makes it difficult for land animals to survive due to habitat loss. Humans also need land animals to survive:
Elephants
Elephants help by storing large amounts of carbon in their dung! This is stinky, but also removes it from the atmosphere where it contributes to the Greenhouse Effect.
Pangolins
A single pangolin can eat as many as 70 million insects in one year! This is important because if we didn't have animals like pangolins, our world would be overrun with bugs and insects.
Whales
Whales and phytoplankton help each other survive. Whales also act as large stores of carbon, and phytoplankton is responsible for 50% of the oxygen in our atmosphere.
Some examples of habitat loss include, when there is a palm oil plantation, they have to cut down an entire forest, but don't put very many trees because palm oil trees need space to grow. Then, the animals that live in the forest have to find new homes, and to get there, they have to go to towns and cities. If wild animals like tigers and elephants come into the middle of a town, they will get shot. This is very damaging for the rest of the elephants as they will keep getting shot as the rest of them go into human territory. This is why we must stop buying palm oil because it endangers a lot of animals.
Another example is of the Hawaiian honeycreepers. The Hawaiian honeycreepers pollinate the plants and spread seeds. The honeycreepers are now endangered because of climate change. Climate change has increased the temperatures in high-elevated forests, causing mosquitos to be able to reach the honeycreepers that live there. When a mosquito bites a Hawaiian honeycreeper, it introduces new diseases that the honeycreepers have never seen before. The honeycreeper's body doesn't know how to fight the diseases, and the honeycreepers die. This is harmful as Hawaiian honeycreepers act as pollinators for the plants. We must combat climate change before the honeycreepers go extinct.
We need to protect these animals
We can protect these animals by, recycling, using renewable energy and not burning fossil fuels. By slowing down or stopping climate change, we help maintain the habitats of the animals that also help us to survive.
