Transcript Rolling Powerpoint for plasma screens - wildlife

Scientists predict that global warming
could contribute to the mass extinction
of wild animals in the near future.
An overheating world is creating a big
change in climatic conditions and this
can harm the delicate ecosystems in
which species live. Threatened species
can already be found all over the world.
The Marine Turtle, urgent global action
is needed to ensure their future.
With diminished living space, elephants
will be unable to escape any changes to
their natural habitat caused by global
warming.
This peaceful, bamboo-eating
member of the bear family faces a
number of threats.
The Orangutan is in big trouble, they
may be extinct in the wild in a few
decades unless we act quickly.
Climate change could eventually make
it unsuitable for Tufted Puffins to breed.
The American Pika could be the first
mammal victim of climate change.
Experts estimate there are as few
as 3,200 tigers left in the wild.
Climate change is affecting home
range, abundance and breeding cycles
of many frog species.
Today, populations of nearly all
the great whales are at depressed
levels.
The polar bear could disappear in the
wild unless the pace of global warming
slows.