{"id":44779,"date":"2021-05-06T14:34:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T13:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/?p=44779"},"modified":"2021-05-25T18:26:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T17:26:20","slug":"climate-change-threatens-the-harbinger-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unric.org\/en\/climate-change-threatens-the-harbinger-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change threatens the harbinger of spring"},"content":{"rendered":"
A sure sign of spring in northern Europe is the arrival of the Arctic tern, but the warming of the oceans in its nesting grounds in the Northern Atlantic is threatening its very existence. 8 May is World Migratory Bird Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Arctic tern is a great traveller. Its breeding grounds are circumpolar covering the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America. In Europe it spends summers from Brittany in the south to Iceland, Greenland and Svalbard in the north.\u00a0 Come autumn in the northern hemisphere it heads for Antarctica where it stays during the northern winter, which is of course summer in the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n