Whales are having to migrate further afield due to shrinking Antarctic foraging zones which contain less food, according to analysis on the impacts of climate change by the WWF.

Migratory whales may need to travel an extra 500 kilometres south to hunt out their crucial foraging zone. Species most affected will include the Blue Whale and the Humpback, which are only just back from the brink of extinction.

Both species build up their food reserves which help them survive throughout the year. As foraging zones move southward and reduce in overall area, sea ice is also expected to reduce the abundance of food for whales in the feeding areas. With the level of global warming predicted over the next 40 years, winter sea-ice coverage of the Southern Ocean will be declining by up to 30 per cent in some crucial areas.

With the 80 nation International Whaling Commission meeting in Chile, now is the time for the I.W.C to take the opportunity to look at ways to increase the resilience of whale populations. The WWF will be recommending the protection of critical habitats and for limiting non-climate stresses to whale populations such as overfishing and pollution.

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World Vision’s relief teams are still hard at work to help the homeless after the destruction caused by cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (formally Burma). Teams of World Vision relief workers are distributed emergency food, mosquito nets, water purification tablets and blankets to the quarter of a million people who have been affected by the cyclone.

Crucial to the survival of the Myanmar people is a constant supply of clean water as most wells have now become contaminated. Children are in great danger of catching cholera and many other diseases. Many villages’ water supplies have become infected, but with the help of the distribution of World Visions water purification tablets, over 88,000 lives have already been saved.

 

More than 40 per cent of the one million people displaced by the cyclone were children, many of whom lost their parents to the tragedy. World Vision has set up 44 Child Friendly Spaces throughout the affected areas to help with the struggle to cope with the children’s physical needs along with their general well being. These areas provide a safe environment for children to play, eat, and space to recover from the events that have blighted the lives of the people of Mynmar.

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