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Reindeer left hungry, shrinking in warming world

Reindeer left hungry, shrinking in warming world Reindeer are shrinking. Warmer winters mean more rain. The rain falls on snow, where it freezes, thus locking-out the reindeer from the food beneath the snow. As a result, the reindeer starve, aborting their calves or giving birth to much lighter young. Credit: © Andreas Gradin / Fotolia Often portrayed as pulling Santa's sleigh, reindeer are a Christmas staple. Now, ecologists have found that reindeer are shrinking due to the impact of climate change on their food supplies. Speaking at the British Ecological Society annual meeting in Liverpool this week, researchers will reveal that over the past 20 years -- during a period of noticeable summer and winter warming in the Arctic -- reindeer on Svalbard have got smaller and lighter. Ecologists from the James Hutton Institute, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and Norwegian University of Life Sciences have worked in the high Arctic since 1994, measuring a

Privacy and Data Protection, WWF (World Wildlife Fund)

Privacy and Data Protection, WWF  World Wildlife Fund At WWF-UK we take the privacy of our members and supporters very seriously and we are committed to protecting your privacy online. This statement explains the privacy and the data protection practices which apply to all websites operated by WWF-UK (registered charity no. 1081247 in England and no. SC039593 in Scotland) and to its trading company WWF-UK (World Wide Fund for Nature) Trading Limited (company number 892812) both of The Living Planet Centre, Brewery Road, Woking, Surrey, GU21 4LL. It also applies to their use of text messaging. A link to this Policy is available from all websites which it applies to. In this Policy references to WWF-UK or to "we" or "us" are to the WWF-UK charity and its trading company. Our aim is to safeguard our users' privacy whilst providing a personalised and valuable service. Collecting personal information is necessary if we are to satisfy the exp