How You Can Help Wildlife in a Warming World If trapped in warming habitats, wolverines and other climate-sensitive animals could go extinct by the end of this century. A creature of the Ice Age, wolverines need deep, persistent snowpack and places where summers don't get too hot. In late winter, pregnant wolverines go into high-altitude snow dens and prepare to give birth. White as polar bears, newborn wolverines need lots of snow overhead for insulation, especially when mom - their furry furnace - is away hunting. Until the climate change crisis, no one gave much thought to how animals with dense fur and a smoldering metabolism are supposed to handle swimsuit weather in our ever-toastier age. But wolverines have a chance to survive. If we reconnect isolated patches of wildlands across North America, if we create protected wildways or corridors that wolverines and other animals can use to travel into suitable habitat, we will give them this chance. Urge your Senators to give wildlife freedom to roam by supporting the Natural Resources Climate Adaptation Act.
Posted on Thursday, February 25, 2010 (Archive on Saturday, March 27, 2010) Posted by Jym St. Pierre   Contributed by
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