'Cold and Painful Death' Await Seal Cubs
By Wendy Heller, March 11, 2008 @ 02:00 AM (EST)
Source: Iol.co.za
Hundreds of newborn seal cubs risk dying of hunger and cold because global warming is making ice in the Arctic Circle melt too fast, the World Wide Fund for Nature in Germany warned on Monday.
"In some parts perhaps not a single one of the seal cubs born in the past few weeks will survive," the WWF said in a statement.
It said hundreds of the roughly 1 500 ringed seal cubs born this month and last month were in danger.
Seal cubs spend the first weeks of their lives in burrows dug in the ice sheet but if that melts, they find themselves in the ocean before they have built up a fat layer that will enable them to survive, WWF's Cathrin Muenster said...
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