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Climate change already affects species in diverse, mostly negative, ways · The Messengers

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Solutions for Nature and People. Photo: Incredible Arctic/Adobe Stock. Back to Current Threats. Climate change already affects species in diverse, mostly negative, ways. Recent bird population trends in Europe show a strong signal of climate change. Read more about this case study. More species have responded negatively than positively to recent climate change. Read more about this case study. Back to Current Threats. Speak up for climate-threatened birds. Download a PDF file of this report.

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More species are projected to decline under climate change than are likely to benefit · The Messengers

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Solutions for Nature and People. Back to Projected Impacts. More species are projected to decline under climate change than are likely to benefit. Some species have traits that make them particularly susceptible to climate change. Read more about this case study. Climate change will increase the number of species under threat. Read more about this case study. There are projected to be more losers than winners under climate change. Results from studies across different regions show that, on average, there...

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Human responses to climate change will likely be more important than direct impacts on nature · The Messengers

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Solutions for Nature and People. Photo: Serguei Koultchitskii/Adobe Stock. Back to Projected Impacts. Human responses to climate change will likely be more important than direct impacts on nature. Considering the impact of climate change on human communities significantly alters vulnerability assessments of IBAs. Read more about this case study. Bioenergy expansion could drive biodiversity loss without careful planning. Read more about this case study. Habitat loss caused by the construction of storm sur...

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Current Threats · The Messengers

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Solutions for Nature and People. Global warming threatens bird species worldwide. Across species and habitats, birds show us climate change is already a threat. Photo: Incredible Arctic/Adobe Stock. Climate change already affects species in diverse, mostly negative, ways. Photo: Daniel Behm/Audubon Photography Awards. Climate change has driven population declines and distribution shifts. Rising temperatures and other recent changes in climate have significantly impacted species’ populations. Although...

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Climate change will exacerbate existing threats · The Messengers

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Solutions for Nature and People. Photo: Tony Britton/Audubon Photography Awards. Back to Projected Impacts. Climate change will exacerbate existing threats. Extreme weather events are projected to increase in intensity and frequency, which will likely have negative impacts on many species. Climate change will also increase the severity of existing threats, for example, by increasing the frequency of fires or by facilitating the spread of disease or invasive species. Read more about this case study. Clima...

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Climate change has driven population declines and distribution shifts · The Messengers

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Solutions for Nature and People. Photo: Daniel Behm/Audubon Photography Awards. Back to Current Threats. Climate change has driven population declines and distribution shifts. Temperature changes explain the declines in endemic bird populations in Mexico. The gains and losses of endemic bird species from sampling points across Mexico in recent decades have been influenced mainly by temperature change. Substantially more endemic species have been lost from particular locations than gained. Many montane sp...

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Protecting and restoring of carbon-rich ecosystems combats climate change and benefits people and nature · The Messengers

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Solutions for Nature and People. Back to Solutions for Nature and People. Protecting and restoring of carbon-rich ecosystems combats climate change and benefits people and nature. Restoring peatland in Belarus reduces emissions and saves waterbirds. Read more about this case study. A new approach to forest conservation is emerging in Indonesia. Burung Indonesia (BirdLife in Indonesia) and the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) are restoring 99,000 ha of lowland Sumatran rainforest. This protects dense carbon ...

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Climate change disrupts interactions among species · The Messengers

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Solutions for Nature and People. Photo: Kevin Vande Vusse/Audubon Photography Awards. Back to Current Threats. Climate change disrupts interactions among species. Arctic-breeding shorebirds are suffering from mismatches between the timing of breeding and food supply. Increasing temperatures in the high Arctic are causing advances in the timing of breeding for some shorebirds such as Baird’s Sandpiper (. Read more about this case study. As spring temperatures have increased since 1990, proportionately few...

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Conserving key sites is critical for adapting to a changing climate · The Messengers

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Solutions for Nature and People. Photo: Sergey Ryzhkov/Adobe Stock. Back to Solutions for Nature and People. Conserving key sites is critical for adapting to a changing climate. Protected areas are helping species to persist within existing ranges and to colonise new areas. Read more about this case study. Identifying new sites increases the resilience of the IBA network. In sub-Saharan Africa, priority locations have been defined for identifying potential new IBAs to increase the robustness of the netwo...