Climate Change

Climate change is almost certainly the most significant challenge facing nature conservation today, with the potential to have significant impacts on the future of the UK and global biodiversity.

Although wildlife has had to adapt to naturally driven climatic fluctuations in the past, the scale and rate of predicted change over the next century will palce much greater pressures on habitats and species.  More importantly, human activities have removed the large areas of natural habitat that acted as buffers against change, replacing them with small and fragmented patches, in many cases already under threat from agriculture and development.
 
"The last time the UK’s wildlife faced a challenge on this scale was at the end of the last ice age. We need to find ways to help our wildlife become more resilient to the trials it faces in the 21st century.”

Sir David Attenborough
Vice-President 

To download The Wildlife Trust's policy on climate change click here.