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35,000 Walruses are forced ashore because there is no sea ice

Walruses Forced Onshore Due to Shrinking Sea Ice

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

I am the Walrus This isn’t the first time Walrus have been forced ashore en masse due to their shrinking habitat of sea ice, and undoubtedly not the last. Last week more than 35,000 Walruses “hauled out” along the coast of northwestern Alaska because nearly all the sea ice the animals use to rest on had all but completely melted away. In…

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Walrus on melting ice

Walrus Again Forced to Flee Melting Arctic Sea Ice

Posted on September 16, 2010 by Thomas Schueneman | 1 Comments

We first reported in 2007 of Walrus pushed off Arctic sea ice due to unusually an unusually low Arctic sea ice extent in the eastern Chukchi Sea, where they normally spend their summers breeding and feeding in the shallow waters of the continental shelf. For the third time in the past four years Walrus again find themselves forced onto land…

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