Why protecting animal migrations could help the planet - The Climate Question, BBC World Service

From wildebeest in the Serengeti to sharks in the sea, climate change is altering animal migrations. It's not just impacting the wildlife but our fight against climate change itself.

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Every year, the great migration sees hundreds of thousands of wildebeest, gazelles, zebras and antelopes migrate from the Serengeti plains in Tanzania to Kenya's Maasai Mara in search of water and juicy grass.

But rising temperatures and unpredictable weather are changing this epic animal journey dramatically. It’s the same for great white sharks, which are being spotted in areas where they’d never normally live.

Tanzanian safari guide Neema Amos takes us into the Serengeti to explain why the wildebeest migration is so important. And shark expert Trisha Atwood reveals how these changes affect not just the animals, but our fight against climate change itself.

0:00 Meet Neema Amos, a safari guide in Tanzania
01:37 The Great Migration
02:25 Wildebeest and the Serengeti ecosystem
04:07 Impact of climate change on wildebeest
05:49 Impact of climate change on the great migration and the Maasai Mara
09:18 Changes in land use are also affecting the animals
11:47 Why Neema is worried about climate change
12:45 UN report on the state of the world's migratory animals
13:18 Professor Trisha Atwood on a close encounter with a tiger shark
14:13 Sharks are also a migratory species
15:27 Impact of climate change on sharks
16:24 Examples of great white sharks moving because of rising sea temperatures
18:13 Sea turtles, seagrass and sharks
19:44 How sharks help increase ocean carbon storage
21:20 Ten animal climate change heroes

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Archive from the Sir David Attenborough programme, ‘Wildebeest: The Super Herd’, BBC Two, 2008

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