How does Global Warming affect arctic hares?
The Artic Hare is an unusual one. While, like other artic creatures, it likes the cold environment, many of its natural enemies, like the artic fox, have been dwindling in numbers by a factor of 100 or 1000 to 1, which means the smaller animals have a chance to thrive more. But because of the shrinkage of their natural environment, they are increasingly becoming rarer themselves. However, members of the Lepus family are highly adaptive, and all 4 lines of the artic hare are thriving well in Canada and Greenland, its two major native homes. So the general answer is this: global warming is depleting their natural enemies and their traditional homeland – one factor is good for their survival, the other bad. However, the bad factor is offset by their adaptability, so they are able to keep thriving in other areas, although they may not be as cold as they traditionally were. Their predators, like the artic fox, on the other hand can only live in the cold environments, and when they lose thei
