Giant pandas are going extinct because of deforestation. About 15 billion trees are cut down every year. These trees are used for homes, to make way for farmland, cattle ranches, or heating. Giant pandas rely on trees for food and homes so not only are these animals losing their homes but fewer trees means more CO₂  in the air. The land is then used for cattle ranches which means more cows releasing methane. To learn more about cows and CO₂ go to the beef production page.

The temperature has risen two degrees fahrenheit  in the last decade. Many animals, such as monarch butterflies will have to shift the time of their migration based on the temperature.  They will have to shift where, when, and how they migrate. Some animals will be able to adapt to the rising temperatures but many will die. Even animals that don't migrate are still being affected by rising temperatures. For example in 2014, a heat wave in Queensland killed 45,500 bats of various species.

 Rising temperatures have had an impact on habitats and ecosystems such as the snow leopards' in the Himalayas. Snow leopards have been moving down from the tops of the mountains because of the increase in avalanches due to melting snow.  With snow leopards' homes melting, more poachers have been hunting them, as well as other animals that previously lived in higher altitudes. Climate change has forced these animals to move down, giving poachers easier access. There are only 4,080 to 6,580 snow leopards left in the world. That may seem like a lot but considering that there are 671,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 dogs, that's nothing. 

Biodiversity is an important part of all ecosystems and without it the world would be gray and desolate. Some animals depend on others to survive. An example is the relationship between bees and flowers which is a mutual relationship. That means both the bees and the flowers benefit from it, and if one is no longer there then the other will die. 

 Woolly bats and pitcher plants also have a mutual relationship.  The pitcher plants make a home for the bats and in return the bats poop in them which provides food for the pitcher. 

With climate change increasing  species loss this mutual relationship is threatened. If one animal dies, other species that depend one them, including plants, will be impacted.