The Amazon rainforest and the desert of Chihuahua, corals or the Bengal tiger are among the ten regions or species considered wonders of nature and that are threatened by climate change, warned yesterday the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Between 30 percent and 60 percent of the Amazon jungle, home of 40 000 plants and 427 species of mammals, could become savanna, said WWF in a report published in Paris.

The Valdivian forest in Chile and Argentina, where grows larch, a tree not widespread that can live 3000 years, is also threatened, according to Greenpeace.

The Chihuahuan desert between Mexico and the United States, habitat of about 3 .500 different plants (cactus, yucca, etc.) and leading animals (jaguar, bighorn sheep, black bear), is another place on red alert.

The Great Barrier Reef in Australia also may make history, because with the rising temperatures would go to death whitening.

Similarly, the scaly sea turtles of South American and Caribbean coasts are at risk.

In the Arctic, where warming occurs twice as fast that  in most of the planet, Alaska salmon are those who would take the brunt.

In Asia, the main threat concerns the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest,betwen India and Bangladesh, with the famous Bengal tiger in its limits.

In China, WWF cites the upper Yangtze River, one of the only two regions where the panda lives in the wild.

In the Himalayas, home to more glaciers than anywhere else on Earth except the poles, the ice can melt at such a rate that would be serious consequences.

Finally, the foundation is concerned about the forests of the eastern coast of Africa, from Kenya to Tanzania and Mozambique.

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