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The Climate Question: How is climate change affecting animal migration?

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31/03/2024 GMT

How is climate change affecting animal migration?

BBC World Service - The Climate Question, How is climate change affecting animal migration?

From wildebeest to sharks, animal journeys are changing - with impacts for humans too

From wildebeest in the Serengeti to sharks in the sea, climate change is altering animal journeys. It's not just impacting the wildlife but our fight against climate change itself.

Every year, the great migration sees hundreds of thousands of wildebeest, gazelles, zebras and antelopes migrate from the Serengeti plains in Tanzania to the Maasai Mara in Kenya, in search of water and juicy grass. But rising temperatures and unpredictable weather are changing this epic animal journey dramatically. It’s the same for great white sharks, which are being spotted in areas where they’d never normally live.  

Tanzanian safari guide Neema Amos takes us into the Serengeti to explain why the wildebeest migration is so important. And shark expert Trisha Atwood reveals how these changes affect not just the animals, but our fight against climate change itself.  

Presenter Sophie Eastaugh is joined by: 

Neema Amos, Safari Guide in Tanzania 

Trisha Atwood, Associate Professor of Watershed Sciences at Utah State University

Joseph Ogutu, Senior Statistician at University of Hohenheim 

Email us at theclimatequestion@bbc.com 

Producers: Sophie Eastaugh and Octavia Woodward 
Editors: Graihagh Jackson and Tom Bigwood 

Series Producer: Simon Watts 
Sound design and mixing: Tom Brignell 
Production Coordinator: Brenda Brown 

Archive from the Sir David Attenborough programme, ‘Wildebeest: The Super Herd’, BBC Two, 2008

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