Climate change is a process which impacts species, eco-systems and biodiversity. Many species already adapted to higher temperatures and changed the length, timing and location of their migration routes.
Some species, like green turtles, are suffering higher levels of tumours with the rise linked to warmer waters and more infections.
Around a fifth of the bird species listed under the Convention could be affected by rising sea levels, erosion and greater wave action linked with climate change.
The Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals CMS copes as international body with Climate Change and its impact on migratory species.
Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director, said: Biodiversitya term for the range of animal, plant and other life on this planetis already suffering from a range of impacts including over exploitation, loss and damage to habitats and pollution.
Unchecked, climate change will pile on more pressure making it increasingly difficult for the world to meet the 2010 targetto reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010.
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