Why protecting animal migrations could help the planet - The Climate Question, BBC World Service

From wildebeest in the Serengeti to sharks in the sea, climate change is altering animal migrations. It's not just impacting the wildlife but our fight against climate change itself.

Every year, the great migration sees hundreds of thousands of wildebeest, gazelles, zebras and antelopes migrate from the Serengeti plains in Tanzania to Kenya's Maasai Mara in search of water and juicy grass.

But rising temperatures and unpredictable weather are changing this epic animal journey dramatically. It’s the same for great white sharks, which are being spotted in areas where they’d never normally live.

Tanzanian safari guide Neema Amos takes us into the Serengeti to explain why the wildebeest migration is so important. And shark expert Trisha Atwood reveals how these changes affect not just the animals, but our fight against climate change itself.

0:00 Meet Neema Amos, a safari guide in Tanzania
01:37 The Great Migration
02:25 Wildebeest and the Serengeti ecosystem
04:07 Impact of climate change on wildebeest
05:49 Impact of climate change on the great migration and the Maasai Mara
09:18 Changes in land use are also affecting the animals
11:47 Why Neema is worried about climate change
12:45 UN report on the state of the world's migratory animals
13:18 Professor Trisha Atwood on a close encounter with a tiger shark
14:13 Sharks are also a migratory species
15:27 Impact of climate change on sharks
16:24 Examples of great white sharks moving because of rising sea temperatures
18:13 Sea turtles, seagrass and sharks
19:44 How sharks help increase ocean carbon storage
21:20 Ten animal climate change heroes

Archive from the Sir David Attenborough programme, ‘Wildebeest: The Super Herd’, BBC Two, 2008

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[alichesa]

Lovely listening to this video. A fun way to improve English skills and always learning something I didn't know so far. More concerned than before about the importance of wildlife for the Planet, for all of us. 💚💜💚

[Buddyever]

Wow... That podcast really awaked me. Climate change is the most serious problem in our world. We have to protect our world, or else the consequenses will be too sad.

[revanoglanov]

This is so essential and actually problem in our world at the moment.

[АлексейКочин-жв]

Thank you for explaining the reasons for the wildbeest migration and how it's affecting on carbon's footprint as well.

[aliksmart]

The climate has been changing since the earth formed and will continue when we are all gone ...The Roman and middle ages warming periods that confuse the feeble minded...it was so hot in the 70s the tarmac was melting...not seen that since then...

[mijanurrahman]

Climate change effects every moments in our life.

[KalibawangAja-bk]

When im life in Singapore i always listening news in the world, , special news what happened in Indonesia, i love BBC, good luck for everything, im really love Britain, see you,

[basavla]

I remember when we migrated to uk in the 70’s.The bin man would not take away rubbish from just any bag. It had to be a black bag. Never seen such snobbery, specially as we came from a third world country where we learned to recycle almost everything as we lived below poverty line by western standards, but were middleclass from where we came from. This is what happens in an unequal created by western colonialism

[ron]

The planet will end up just fine ... once mankind eliminates itself.

[mikerider]

I'm really concerned about the annual death figures of British Birds 🐦 as a result of Wind Turbine Blade Strikes.
10, 000 to 100, 000 birds DIE each year because of Wind Turbines and I've yet to hear anything from the BBC about these astronomical figures.

[테슬라투더문]

stupid of politicians from all over the countries

[Philip-xd]

ie.
Same as what has been happening for Billions of years. 🙄

[susanajavier]

🎉🎉excellent to improve our level of English!🎉

[karljensen]

Plenty assumptions leads to poor reporting and poor management ..

[ApinderSingh-bc]

Animals have there own personal problem

[khkhmiles]

What's up with these annoying circles ?