Thursday, June 17, 2010

We're doomed: Because CO2 is allegedly forcing polar bears to eat Svalbard barnacle goose eggs, that population has only grown from 300 to 30,000

Polar bears threatening geese as diet ravaged by climate shift - Scotsman.com News
Researchers, who have photographed bears in the nests and found evidence of "egg raids", say more polar bears are gathering around Spitsbergen and preying on the eggs because a reduction in Arctic ice is making it harder for them to hunt seals.
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The bears could threaten the fortunes of the Svalbard barnacle geese population; there were just 300 birds in the 1940s, but now up to 30,000 visit Scotland each winter. The turnaround was the result of a ban on hunting, work on monitoring and the provision of a safe habitat for the geese at Caerlaverock, the WWT said.

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