Adaptation
"To adapt to climate change, the UK’s wildlife will need to move along ‘climate corridors’ up and down the country, or to shadier slopes or cooler valleys. Wildlife has done it all before, after the last ice age, but this time the change is faster and there are unexpected obstacles: cities, motorways and expanses of hostile countryside.
If we don’t give our wildlife enough room to manoeuvre, a collapse in biodiversity is inevitable. For decades we have been slowing the decline in biodiversity by protecting small oases of wildlife as an emergency measure. Now, in the face of climate change, it is essential that we link these oases and restore our ecosystems and natural processes at a speed and on a scale
that we would once have felt was impossible. Different parts of the UK will need to take different approaches, depending not only upon natural habitats but upon local social and economic needs. And change on this scale needs deep-rooted support across many constituencies".
Stephanie Hilborne OBE
Chief Executive,The Wildlife Trusts
 A Living Landscape, a report by The Wildlife Trusts, calls for urgent Government action to prepare wildlife for climate change. It contains a four-point plan which maps the way forward in countering climate change and restoring the UK’s battered ecosystems, for both wildlife and people; from inner cities to rural communities.
Living Seas, The Wildlife Trusts' vision, we believe that it is possible to have a natural environment that is adapting well to a changing climate, with ocean processes helping to slow down climate change.
Living Seas - The Wildlife Trusts' vision
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Further information
Brian Eversham, chief executive of Beds, Cambs, Northants and Peterborough Wildlife Trust, and en expert on the effects of climate change on wildlife, features in Tomorrow's Wildlife, a special film by The Wildlife Trusts. View it on our Youtube page.
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