Wildlife

For the past twenty years, climate change has been high on the international agenda. Together with desertification, soil degradation and biodiversity loss, it is widely recognized as the major environmental threat the world is facing. Evidence is increasing that warming and other climate-related changes are happening more quickly than anticipated, and prognoses are becoming worse.

The world already faces a biodiversity extinction crisis, and it is likely to be made worse by climate change. Therefore, terrestrial, freshwater and marine wildlife will be severely affected unless we manage to cope with climate changes through decisive planning and action. The main focus is on tropical terrestrial wildlife and its habitats, but other fauna, ecosystems and geographical regions are covered as well.

The impacts of climate change will include permanent changes in physical conditions, such as snow cover, permafrost and sea level along with increases in both the irregularity and severity of extreme weather events like droughts, floods and storms, which will lead to changes in ecosystems and ecosystem functioning.

The world is undergoing an extinction crisis – the most rapid loss of biodiversity in the planet’s history – and this loss is likely to accelerate as the climate changes.

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