Due to the warming of our planet - our beautiful animal
sea friends are having to leave the waters to seek safety on the shores. Extreme ice melting in Alaska; has forced thousands of walrus to the safety of the beaches in a near by island.
Scientists around the world have been mystified by the recent large swarms of beaching activities by sea life.
Recently in New Zealand, hundreds upon hundreds of whales where found beached on a small coastal stretch. It is
starting to become increasingly alarming the rapid rate in which the cooling systems of our planet; the polar caps are melting causing a major shift in the water temperatures.
Scientists say the walruses came ashore in such large numbers because their normal habitats, Arctic ice floes, are melting.
Biologists with the USGS say the situation can be very dangerous because walruses are easily startled, and can stampede. Some walruses, particularly calves and juveniles, can get crushed to death by larger walruses moving about.
Walruses forage on the sea floor and usually use sea ice as a resting platform between feedings.
The WWF says Arctic sea ice is at the third lowest level in recorded history.
This aerial video, recorded for the United States Geological Survey, was taken from an altitude of 4,000 feet near Point Lay, Alaska. Because aircraft could prompt a stampede, there’s a no-fly zone: the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service asks aircraft to maintain a lateral distance of a half mile, and minimum altitude of 15-hundred feet.
This is the first time tens of thousands of walruses have been seen crowded together here, though similar sightings have been recorded in Russia and another area of northwestern Alaska in years past.
Time is running out for our beautiful planet, and all inhabitants. The Earth is heating up; the ice is melting - our Home is getting hot. The only way we can reverse these side affects is for all of humanity to adopt the Vegan Diet.
According the the World Watch Institue; the livestock industry accounts for over 51% of GHG (Global Green house gases). THe simplest solution - BE VEGAN.
