Posted on 03/22/2024 4:42:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PALO ALTO -- The Arctic fox is a natural beauty but this captivating creature with its playful nature and distinctive look is under threat.
Experts say Arctic foxes need to hunt rodents to survive long winters and climate change is thinning the rodent population.
"If we get warmer and more unstable climate, where you can get snow melt and you get icing on the ground, that is going to affect how well the rodents can survive," explained conservation biologist Kristine Ulvund with the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research.
Stanford professor of biology Elizabeth Hadley, who has studied biodiversity for decades, cautions that the Arctic fox is not the only species under threat. She explained how human activity and climate change are the two major factors that are challenging the survival of many species around the world.
"Extinction happens in a heartbeat and evolution takes a very long time. So it's easier to kind of kill something than it is to allow it to persist. So biodiversity is threatened in many ways by humanity and the Arctic foxes exemplify those threats," Hadly said.
Dr. Hadly said we have a moral responsibility to consider what we can do to stem the loss.
"It requires major activities on the part of humanity, not just a single person. We can all do our share but it requires major, major action for us to consider what we can do to stem global change," she said.
That major action would include dramatically reducing greenhouse gases both locally, nationally and globally and preserving wildlife habitat so we can outfox the threat.
Hadly added how we need to maintain the nature that we already have and she pointed out that California is a leader in this effort.
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“Warming climate threatens...”
No, it doesn’t.
No one worried about the rodents or Arctic foxes in the 1970s when there were plans to mine coal, grind it to dust, mix it with oil and spray it on the ice fields to increase heat absorption from the sun to stop THE COMING ICE AGE!
Weather report, currently shows freezing, ice, snow.
“snow melt and you get icing on the ground”
This makes absolutely no
sense. These little buggers
aren’t going to hang around
and drown or get trapped
in any tunnels if they get
iced over.
Maybe there are too many
foxes benefiting from
“climate change”, and there
isn’t enough mice to go
around. Funny how nature
always seems to level things
out.
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