Climate Change and National Park Wildlife: A Survival Guide for a Warming World

This report, from the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), recommends strategies to help wildlife adapt to the conditions caused by climate change, including providing land corridors, and reducing stress from pollution and invasive species. Included are five steps for safeguarding wildlife from climate change, and eleven wildlife profiles which address impacts to specific vulnerable eco-regions and provide possible solutions.

Publication Date: August 2009

Author or Affiliated User:

• Kirk Repanshek

Related Organizations:

• National Park Conservation Association (NPCA)

Sectors:

• Biodiversity and ecosystems
• Fish and fisheries
• Wildlife

Resource Category:

• Solutions

Resource Types:

• Best practice

Impacts:

• Air temperature
• Drought
• Extreme storms and hurricanes
• Flooding
• Invasive species and pests
• Permafrost melt
• Precipitation changes
• Sea-level rise
• Water supply
• Water temperatures
• Wildfires

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