Researchers say that the population of reindeer can decrease by up to 80 % by 2100

Reindeer Population is likely to decrease dramatically due to the future Climate With North American residents confronting the highest danger, researchers expect.

While this species has survived multiple periods of the rise in the Arctic temperature, climate change has already contributed to the loss of nearly two -thirds of the world population in the reindeer in the past three decades, according to the research team, led by the University of Adelaide in Australia and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

There are about 9 million reindeers worldwide, including those that are installed, According to the global population review.

The researchers said that the wild ringtone in North America, which is also called Caribu and is estimated at about 3.5 million by the global population review, is at risk of warming climate. Caribu was found in Alaska and Canada.

“Unless there are significant discounts in greenhouse gas emissions and increased investment in wildlife management and its preservation,” Damian Fortham, Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Environmental Institute at the University of Adelaidi, said in a statement.

The researchers reached their end by studying how the reindeer responded to previous climatic events.

“Using excavations, old DNA and computer models, we have rebuilt the changes in the abundance and distribution of reindeer over the past 21,000 years in decisions that have not been made before, and we compared them directly with future predictions,” the main researcher Elizabetta Cantiri said in a statement.

They found that the population of reindeer has decreased during the past periods of “rapid climate warming”.

“But the expected losses in the coming decades due to future climate change are likely to be more severe than those in the past.”

Decrease in reindeer groups can have a broader environmental impact because animals help maintain the diversity of the plant in tundra.

“The decrease in the diversity of the tundra plant caused by the loss of reindeer and Caribu will have many successive effects, including limiting carbon storage in the soil in the Arctic,” said Eric Post, a professor at the University of California Davis, who contributed to the research. “The ongoing losses of climate temperature are likely to increase by launching soil carbon into the air, which will, of course, threaten the reindeer and Caripo as well as ourselves.”