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(Message started by: Project Officer on Aug 27^th, 2003, 11:54pm)

Title: RSPB: Climate change and wildlife
Post by Project Officer on Aug 27^th, 2003, 11:54pm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harris, Cath [mailto:cath.harris@rspb.org.uk]
> Sent: 26 August 2003 16:43
> Subject: Climate change and wildlife
>
>
> > GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND WILDLIFE
> > A summary conference report
> >
> > August 26, 2003
> >
> > A new RSPB-led report about the impact of climate change on global
> > biodiversity provides a wealth of material for those needing the latest
> > scientific information on how global warming affects wildlife.
> >
> > The report is grouped in five global habitats: coasts, forests, marine,
> > managed landscapes and mountains/high latitudes. A summary of global
> > climate change is also presented, together with a synthesis of the
> > findings and their implications. Concise reports of three papers for each
> > section are given.
> >
> > The scientists' findings are diverse. Climate change is ever-present as
> > one of the factors likely to affect biodiversity, but the range of its
> > influence varies with different ecosystems, from the loss of montane
> > rainforest in Australia, squeezing of the Arctic tundra, to changing
> > distributions of sea fish and plankton.
> >
> > Nonetheless the report has strong unifying messages for action: for the
> > global community to constrain global warming to 2 C by the end of this
> > century; and for scientists studying the impacts of climate change on
> > wildlife to gain political and public acceptance of the urgency to achieve
> > this target.
> >
> > The report, attached as a pdf file below, is the output from a conference
> > of nearly 100 scientists organised by the RSPB together with English
> > Nature, UNEP-WCMC, the Tyndall Centre and WWF. The conference was held at
> > the University of East Anglia, UK, in April 2003
> >
> > For further information contact:
> > John Lanchbery RSPB Head of Climate Change Policy 01767
> > 680551
> > Olly Watts RSPB Climate Change Policy Officer 01767
> > 680551
> > Cath Harris RSPB Media Officer
> > 01767 681577
> >
> > <<Global climate impacts Norwich 2003 http://www.hkbws.org.hk/fileServer/Projectofficer/rspb_climate.pdf>>