Challenge description

How can biodiversity resilience be improved following climate change?

Are birds bioindicators of climatic effects?

Nature plays an important role in climate regulation. Biodiversity and ecosystem functions help us adapt to climate change and mitigate them. Therefore, attention is progressively shifting to climate adaptation and to interventions that can be implemented to adapt to these changes.

Therefore, the following actions must be implemented:

• prevention actions such as adequate strategic planning,
• mitigation and compensation actions following the pressures exerted on the environment caused by the excessive exploitation of resources, the spread of non-native invasive species and all forms of pollution.

Challenge vision

How to guarantee the necessary degree of resilience and adaptation of Biodiversity?

Solutions should focus:

• on the analysis of landscape fragmentation through operational planning and strategic planning tools
• through experimental protocols for the planning and management of protected areas and ecological networks
• on the analysis of the trends of migratory birds at a global level
• on adaptation measures linked to expected sea level rise scenarios
• on the control and / or eradication of alien species in competition with native species

Together with Climathon, a successful solution could be the implementation of the Ecological Network management plans and the implementation of the Parks plans