counted by the public last year. that dog was only a couple of months. forjust a small team, half a million is far too many. by using the public, by using citizen scientists, we can get thousands of people to count. that makes the process much quicker. but also, it gets the message out to people as well about walrus and about climate change and about how the arctic is changing. ! change and about how the arctic is chanauin. ., , , , changing. i am ust slightly concerned changing. i am ust slightly concerned that changing. i am just slightly concerned that i changing. i am just slightly concerned that i might - changing. i am just slightly concerned that i might not| changing. i am just slightly . concerned that i might not get changing. i am just slightly - concerned that i might not get the wrong right thing, that i might be counting calories or seals, rather than walruses? in be counting calories or seals, rather than walruses?- be counting calories or seals, rather than w
on the wwf website counting them. so, with this counting campaign what we re asking people to do is, either put a point when you can see walrus, like here, because they re quite spread out, you can see each individual walrus. so we just set that option and then put points around. and what is the value of getting normal people to count walruses? for us, it s because the arctic is big. and so we have a lot of satellite images to go through. and with the first campaign, which was a search campaign, we ve seen the value of it. we ve been able to go through it much quicker than if it was just one person. and are you offering a special prize if someone spots thor? we should do one! but, to be honest, if it s satellite images, we can spot walrus, but identifying individuals, good luck. yeah, exactly. that s advanced level walrus detective work. this one could be thor. that one could be thor. i don t know. but i know they re all walruses! jonah fisher, bbc news.
so rod, than a team from the wwf and the british antarctic survey, travelled to the arctic circle last summer. their aim, to count walruses and to cross reference their findings with satellite images. if we don t have information about them, then we don t know if they re adapting to their changing environment. we don t know if they re doing ok, if their number are decreasing. technology can help conservation, possibly, for all the animals that live in remote places. it s going to help us understand so much more. walrus from space! and this is where you come in. we are creating a 21st century detective story, and you could be the detective. we want you. two years ago, thousands of people helped the wwf to go through half a million satellite images, spotting the ones with walruses in them. now it s time for the next phase
linked to climate change. we ll probably never know why thor came to the shores of the uk. he s a vagrant. that means a species that has left its normal range. he may have been foraging for new food sources. we simply don t know. however, we do know that in the arctic, the walrus, and many other species, are facing the full reality of the climate crisis. so, the arctic is warming about three times as fast as the rest of the planet. sea ice, that s frozen ocean, is in very rapid decline. it s perhaps the most visible sign of the climate crisis on our planet. and sea ice is critical habitat for walrus. knowing how many walruses there are, and how the melting of the arctic sea ice is affecting them, is vital for efforts to protect them.
lural. walruses. but it is walrus? plural- well. walruses. but it is walrus? ยป plural. well, walrus or walruses. you are probably right, in bbc speak, walruses is probably the correct term. both are used equally. i think you are more likely to be right, to be honest! thank you for joining us. we will catch up with you when the results come in. i did worry slightly when i did say the word walruses. it didn t sound white. quite right. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning, i m asad ahmad. people travelling to and from euston station this morning will notice a larger police presence than usual, because of a shooting at the weekend on a nearby road. a seven year old girl sustained life changing injuries and five others were injured after the shooting on saturday