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The document discusses the significance of migratory animals and their movement patterns, which are essential for maintaining natural ecosystems. It highlights the threats they face, including habitat destruction and climate change, emphasizing the need for conservation efforts. The Convention on Migratory Species aims to protect these species across their habitats, but the challenges ahead are daunting.
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- 2. Massive animalmigrations are among nature's most inspiring events. Whether by wing, fin or hoof, the distance some creatures travel in search of a new habitat is paralleled only by what they endure to survive. Migrations also play a vital role in our natural ecosystems — they are the veins and arteries of Mother Earth — and they are a reminder that the world's habitats are interconnected.
- 3. Animal migration Whatis animal migration? long-distance movement of individuals, usually on a seasonal basis. It is found in all major animal groups, including birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, insects, and crustaceans Reasons for migration? local climate, local availability of food, the season of the year mating
- 4. To bea true migration it should be a annual or a seasonal occurance Examples: Mexican free-tailed bats on their long aerial migration
- 5. Christmas islandred crab migration
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- 7. Draganoflies Monarchbutterflies
- 8. Why we needto conserve migratory animals Although animal migration may be a ubiquitous phenomenon, it is also an increasingly endangered one. In virtually every corner of the globe, migratory animals face a growing array of threats, including habitat destruction, overexploitation, disease, and global climate change Saving the great migrations will be one of the most difficult conservation challenges of the 21st century. But if we fail to do so, we will pay a heavy price—aesthetically, ecologically, and even economically.
- 9. spring migrationof songbirds across the Gulf of Mexico report that the number of nightly flights dropped by nearly 50% between 1963 and 1989. 58% of the elk migratory routes and 78% of the pronghorn routes in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem have been lost due to development. more than 100 stocks of salmon in the Pacific North-west that have been driven to extinction because of dam construction, logging, water diversion, and other human activities.
- 10. The Aviation Ministry’sfailure to heed the warnings issued by the environmentalists over the birds’ movement in Mattala airstrip has now become a great threat for air travel, environmentalists claim.(Sunday leader)
- 12. About CMS The Conventionon Migratory Species, also known as the Bonn Convention, aims to conserve terrestrial, aquatic and avian migratory species throughout their range.