Global Warming and Climate Change Publications

Publications from Defenders of Wildlife about global warming and climate change with a special focus on the impact on wildlife and habitat.

Reducing the Impact of Global Warming on Wildlife

Reducing the Impact of Global Warming on Wildlife

Defenders of Wildlife hosted a symposium on lessening the impacts of climate change on wildlife in September 2007. The key findings are now available in this 40-page report, Reducing the Impact of Global Warming on Wildlife: The Science, Management and Policy Challenges.

Reducing the Impact of Global Warming on Wildlife (May 2008)

Navigating the Arctic Meltdown

This solutions-based series focuses on 10 arctic species, discussing threats to the species due to global warming, and identifying real-world opportunities to help usher wildlife threatened by global warming through a 100-year bottleneck of immediate impacts from global warming. (2007)

Navigating the Arctic Meltdown: Polar Bear
Conflict, starvation and cannibalism. These bleak words evocative of an adventure tale set in the steamy tropics actually describe polar bears facing the loss of their sea-ice feeding grounds, perhaps by as early as 2040, as the Arctic climate rapidly warms.
Navigating the Arctic Meltdown: Walruses
Food or rest - which to give up? This is the harsh choice faced by walruses as global warming accelerates melting of Arctic sea ice and lengthens the distance between shallow-water feeding grounds and ice floes where the animals haul out to rest and give birth.

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Global Warming and Wildlife Refuges

One of the greatest threats to our National Wildlife Refuges is global warming. Read this report to learn more.

Refuges at Risk 2006
America's 10 most endangered national wildlife refuges 2006