Coalition: Climate change threatens Sierra Nevada habitat
By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee
Both the Sierra Nevada and the San Francisco Bay-Delta have been named by environmental groups to a new list of 10 American habitats threatened by climate change.
The list was released Wednesday by the Endangered Species Coalition, a network of hundreds of conservation groups in the United States.
The 10 threatened habitats – deemed most important for endangered species in a warming world – were selected by a panel of 10 scientists from across the country representing academia and the conservation community. They relied on existing data rather than new research.
It is a first by the coalition, which previously generated annual lists focused on individual species rather than whole habitats.
