Over the next century Grizzly bear populations could decrease due to
indirect impacts through food availability. The purpose of this blog is
to focus on the climatic effects on the Grizzly bear population in
Yellowstone National Park. Over the past century, temperature have been
rising significantly faster than previously seen. These increase in
temperatures might not affect the Grizzly bears directly in terms of
staying alive, but they can and are indirectly impacting them. Their
primary food sources have been shrinking in quantity due to these minor
increases in temperature, while there may still be other possible ways
for the Grizzly bears to survive using other sources, those too may be
impacted eventually. Another issue revolving around this species is that
they hibernate during the cold winter months. With this, there runs
the risk of trophic mismatch. [14]
People might wonder
why it is important to save the Grizzly bears. To this I would say it
is out of pure morals. Do they deserve to be here any less than we do?
Seeing as we (as a species) have already taken away the majority of
their original habitat, shouldn't we try to prevent the extinction of
this magnificent species while they are still here? [3] There might not
be a beneficial money making endeavor in regards to the saving of this
species, however I fail to see any benefit of allowing the species to be
wiped out as well.
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| This Grizzly bear finds this situation to be ridiculous. [18] |
I chose this topic due to my previous experience in living in Montana, seeing the natural world without obvious visible influences from anthropogenic impacts. Seeing this animal lose its habitat due to the influence of people makes me realize how much anything we do is able to affect many different organisms throughout the world.
