How animals are fleeing climate change, the Nature Conservancy map

How animals are fleeing climate change, the Nature Conservancy map

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This map shows the directions being taken by mammals, birds and amphibians that are forced to migrate in search of more hospitable climates.

Climate change is altering entire ecosystems, forcing the organisms that inhabit them to move in search of more favourable climates. A group of researchers from the University of Washington and the environmental organisation Nature Conservancy has produced, through the processing of statistical models, an interactive map that traces the migration routes of three different classes of vertebrates — mammals, amphibians and birds — calculating the movements of nearly three thousand animal species.