Tuesday, March 26, 2013 Featured by U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service of the Department of the Interior In cooperation with
state, tribal, and federal agency partners, the Obama
Administration today released the first nationwide strategy to
help public and private decision makers prepare for and reduce
the current and future impacts of climate change on species,
habitats, ecosystems, and the people and economies that depend
on them. The National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Adaptation
Strategy provides a roadmap of key steps needed over the next
five years to reduce the current and expected impacts of climate
change on our natural resources. Current and expected impacts
include: - Changing species distributions and migration patterns
- The spread of wildlife diseases and invasive species - The
inundation of coastal habitats with rising sea levels - Changing
productivity of our coastal oceans - Changes in freshwater
availability The National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Adaptation
Strategy was created through an extens