Last Ice Area Wwf Canada

The Last Ice Area Wwf Canada Some call this essential region “similijuaq,” meaning “place of the big ice” or tuvaijuittuq, which means “the ice never melts” in inuktitut. wwf canada was the first to call it the last ice area. together, we must safeguard this globally significant region that will be a last refuge for ice dependent species as the world warms. Wwf will also work to create future predictions for sea ice and the ecosystems in the last ice area (lia) and assess how suitable the lia might be for top predators such as whales, seals, and polar bears as they play crucial roles in maintaining ecosystem balance. indigenous communities in and around the lia should engage and perspectives on.

Protecting The Last Ice Area Wwf Ca Featured as arctic melt accelerates, canada moves to protect 'the last ice area' after months of bad northern climate change news — canada’s arctic warming at three times the global rate, permafrost melting 70 years ahead of predictions, the worst polar wildfire season on record — plans have now moved forward to protect tuvaijuittuq. Paul okalik, senior advisor arctic conservation, wwf canada. as the arctic is warming almost three times faster than our rapidly warming planet, protecting the ‘last ice area’ for communities and sea ice dependent species has long been a focus of wwf canada’s arctic work, including helping to establish the tallurutiup imanga marine. Areas where ice seals breed generally have annual ice over the continental shelf, ice edge features, or polynyas — so if these habitats occur more frequently and remain available in the last ice area, then the region may be able to support polar bears. currently, polar bears are distributed around the last ice area in north and northeast. Area of remaining ice is getting smaller. the remaining ice area, including canada’s arctic islands and northern greenland, is projected to retain its summer sea ice longer than any other area in the entire arctic (wwf lia factsheet 2011) . this is the core of the last ice area, the area where critical arctic summer sea ice is predicted to be.