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Climate Trackers: Bengal Tiger

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Subido el 21 de agosto de 2008 por EducaMadrid

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The Bengal tiger is a large solitary predator that needs a hunting ground of more than 100 km2. At present, the largest population of Bengal tigers live in the Sudarbans delta, a region straddling India and Bangladesh, where 100,000 km2 of mangrove forests and swamps still subsist. Mangrove swamps have an essential stabilising role in coastal zones, creating a natural barrier between the coast and the extreme climatic events from the ocean, such as high tides, hurricanes, and tsunamis. Throughout the world, mangrove swamps are subject to irreversible damage due to human constructions, chemical pollution and the extensive breeding of shrimps. The climate change underway brings a supplementary destructive factor and the rise in sea levels can eliminate mangrove swamps forever as evidenced in the hundred Sudarbans islands, where four have already been swallowed up. In fact, the seas only have to rise one more metre and the largest mangrove forest in the world will disappear forever, in turn depriving the Bengal tigers of their living space.t

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Here in the Ganges Delta, everything is immense. Me, the Bengal Tiger, I like striding around 00:00:00
this region made of land and water. It's my territory. I'm a solitary animal, and I need 00:00:24
a lot of room to hunt my prey. On the menu, deer, wild boar, monkeys, and blizzards. I 00:00:30
know these mangrove swamp forests by heart, with their roots diving into the salt water. 00:00:38
But now I'm worried. The landscape is changing. Islands are disappearing in this big delta. 00:00:44
All this because of the rising sea levels caused by climate change. 10,000 square kilometers 00:00:49
are at risk of being partially submerged. For us, it is more than time. Turn down your 00:00:55
thermostat by just one degree. Save energy. Act now. 00:01:02
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