Nations 'need to work together' to save wildlife Countries will
have to improve their co-operation if they are to protect
endangered wildlife in an age of climate change, according to an
international study. A team of scientists have come up with a
conservation index designed to help policy-makers to deal with
the effects of climate change on birds in Africa, the theory of
which could help governments across the world as climate change
forces species to move to new areas. An international research
team led by Professor Brian Huntley and Dr Stephen Willis of
Durham, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham
University, in North East England, looked at how native African
bird species will fare in 803 Important Bird Areas (IBAs) across
the continent, if climate change continues as predicted. Birds
are seen as a key indicator for conservationists because they
respond quickly to change and the research, funded by the Royal
Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), and published in the
journal Conserva