Although this article is not marine-mammal related, it's important to realize that global climate change is affecting not only marine mammals, like the polar bear, but also rare land mammals like Bengal tigers. It's important that we all get involved and put pressure on our elected officials to support legislation to reduce human impacts, as well as making sacrifices in our own daily lives that help lessen our own personal carbon footprints.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- One of the world’s largest tiger populations could disappear by the end of this century as rising sea levels caused by climate change destroy their habitat along the coast of Bangladesh in an area known as the Sundarbans, according to a new World Wildlife Fund-led study published in the journal Climatic Change.

Tigers are among the world’s most threatened species, with only an estimated 3,200 remaining in the wild. WWF officials said the threats facing these Bengal tigers and other iconic species around the world highlight the need for urgent international action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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