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Whales Set to Chase Shrinking Feed Zones
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US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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June 20, 2008
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World Wildlife Fund issued the following news release:
Endangered migratory whales will be faced with shrinking crucial Antarctic foraging zones which will contain less food and will be further away, a new analysis of the impacts of climate change on Southern Ocean whales has found.
Ice breaker: Pushing the boundaries for whales, released just ahead of the opening of a crucial International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting, summarises WWF research showing that levels of global warming predicted over the next 40 years will lead to winter sea-ice coverage of the Southern Ocean declining by up to 30 per cent in some key areas.
"Essentially, what we are seeing is that ice-associated whales such ...