Walruses at risk, group warns state
From Times Wire Reports
A conservation group asked the government to protect Pacific walruses from the effects that global warming and energy development could have on the species’ northern habitat.
The Center for Biological Diversity, which filed the petition, said the receding sea ice is causing walruses to abandon the ice and congregate on shorelines, where the habitat and food supply cannot support so many walruses.
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