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SUMMARY:Climate change and local wildlife - Brian Eversham\, Chief Executi
 ve of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire\, Cambridgeshire and Northampton
 shire
DTSTART:20161121T180000Z
DTEND:20161121T190000Z
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CONTACT:Beverley Larner
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Climate change is the biggest threat to humanity and
  to the biodiversity of the planet\, and thus the biggest threat to local 
 wildlife.  In this presentation Brian will explore the lessons we can lear
 n from previous global climate changes\, and the ways species responded fr
 om the series of glaciations in the past three million years. He will then
  consider how species and habitats are likely to respond to current climat
 e warming. \n\nHaving suggested some potential ‘winners and losers’\, 
 and highlighted some of the species likely to colonise Britain in the next
  century\, he will explain how the Wildlife Trust and other organisations 
 are helping adaptation to climate change. He will argue that the same resp
 onses will help in tackling the other major threats to wildlife: invasive 
 species\, pollution\, urbanisation and development\, and agricultural inte
 nsification.\n\nThe Wildlife Trust’s response can be summarised as bigge
 r  -  better -  joined up:  bigger nature reserves\, better managed with c
 limate change in mind\, and joined up in two senses\, physically linked to
 gether\, and reconnected with local communities. Although all major politi
 cal parties supported the Lawton review\, Making space for nature\, govern
 ments have since failed to  implement the recommended changes. Brian argue
 s that gaining public and political support will be easier with a clearer 
 understanding of the value of wildlife and the natural environment\, and a
 n understanding of how it can help protect people and their property from 
 the worst impacts of climate change. \n
LOCATION:Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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