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Climate change killing elephants, says Kenya
Kenya is home to over 36,000 elephants, which are important to the country's economic development and conservation efforts. Elephants need to take over 200 litters of water and 300 kilograms of food each day but now they can find much less. But in the last few years, consecutive seasons of poor rains dried up rivers and water pans and created dry carcasses of wild elephants in protected wildlife reserves. Researchers say they are clear indicators of drought-related deaths. In fact, climate change is now killing more elephants than poaching. In fact, nearly 180 elephants died just in the first half of this year while the number of victims of poaching was less than 10. So, the wildlife service is shifting its conservation efforts to biodiversity and ecosystem that are sustainable under global warming. Unfortunately, global warming has been accelerating and extreme weather conditions are sweeping large parts of the world. Can we catch up?
Watch the video to learn about another trace of global warming.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-62323058
Climate change killing elephants, says Kenya
Kenya is home to over 36,000 elephants, which are important to the country's economic development and conservation efforts. Elephants need to take over 200 litters of water and 300 kilograms of food each day but now they can find much less. But in the last few years, consecutive seasons of poor rains dried up rivers and water pans and created dry carcasses of wild elephants in protected wildlife reserves. Researchers say they are clear indicators of drought-related deaths. In fact, climate change is now killing more elephants than poaching. In fact, nearly 180 elephants died just in the first half of this year while the number of victims of poaching was less than 10. So, the wildlife service is shifting its conservation efforts to biodiversity and ecosystem that are sustainable under global warming. Unfortunately, global warming has been accelerating and extreme weather conditions are sweeping large parts of the world. Can we catch up?
Watch the video to learn about another trace of global warming.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-62323058
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