How is climate change affecting animal migration?

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