Climate change threatens Asian birds

Hanoi, Feb 11 (Prensa Latina) Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam are among the six countries whose bird species will suffer, in the future, from the effects of climate change, according to a research conducted by two British scientist institutions. Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, along with Bhutan, Nepal, and India, were taken as samples in a research whose representative results will be used to design a new global alert. The University of Durham and the international entity Poultry Life, in charge of the research, concluded that many species will need human help to adapt to the phenomenon. The document, published by Global Biological Change magazine, assesses a future distribution in more protected sites of nearly 370 endangered species in the eastern Himalayas and the regions near Mekong. The research estimates that at least 45 percent and, possibly, 88 percent of the species will decrease as climate change worsens. (Prensa-Latina) GJS 02111251 NNNN