Even an increase of just a few degrees could have drastic effects, and could melt the polar ice caps flooding low-lying countries such as Bangladesh or southeast England. Global warming may change countries climates and effect plant and animals' abilities to survive. A habitat is a particular area which provides the food, water, temperature and space needed by an animal or plant to survive. Habitats are found up the tallest tree or far underground, in the icy Antarctic or in the scorching desert. Habitat depletion is the destruction or reduction of a habitat.
Herbivores are animals which eat only vegetation such as leaves, fruit and bark.
They may eat only one type of plant or a whole variety of plants. For example the koala eats only eucalyptus leaves whilst gorillas eat a wide range of fruits, leaves, buds and vegetation from their tropical rainforest habitat. There are two herbivores in 'Celebration of Wildlife'. Why not look at the elephant Fact Sheet Animal Fact Sheet Number 10 or the bumblebee Fact Sheet Number 1. Hibernating is a kind of sleep that allows some creatures to survive very cold winter months.