Missy, left, and Hawa groom each other during a daily bushwalk at the Chimpanzee Conservation Centre on Nov. 28, 2015, in Somoria, Guinea.
"They cannot then go around foraging — what they would normally do during the day if they didn't have to deal with stress," Kalan told CBC News.. It's a sign that some animals can adjust to new realities that climate change brings to their environment, but only to a point. Experts also say chimps can't just migrate to cooler areas and as it gets hotter, the animals may fight with others over ways to cool off.
Encroachment, deforestation and total fragmentation of the forest are "driving the population to extinction," Ikemeh said. Check out our podcast and radio show. This week: What does climate change mean for whales in B.C.'s Salish Sea? We tag along with researchers using new methods to find out.drops new podcast episodes every Wednesday and Saturday. You can find them on your favourite podcast app, or on demand atinteresting, and I applaud her.
A farmer works a field in Sheffield Mills in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley in 2010. Nova Scotia already has a program similar to the new program in New Brunswick, which pays farmers for setting aside land for conservation. John Russell, environmental farm plan facilitator with the Agricultural Alliance of New Brunswick, which represents the province's farmers, said the program will help both farmers and the environment beyond existing government programs.
Russell said while farmers might want to conserve parts of their property without incentives like this, any acreage that's not used takes away from profits. With a demographic shift toward larger, corporate farms in recent decades across Canada, Russell said there's an even greater need for protection, with larger farms often more focused on profit and getting returns from the land.