Conservation > Climate change
Climate change
Climate change is the biggest threat facing Cornwall's habitats and species. Cornwall Wildilfe Trust is working to tackle the problem by limiting our own carbon footprint as an organisation, encouraging others to do the same and most importantly, we are working to help habitats and species adapt to the changes we are already experiencing.
Copenhagen Climate Change Conference 2009
Cornwall Wildlife Trust are supporting the 'Footsteps to Copenhagen Campaign' in the run up to the United Nation's Climate Change Conference 2009.
Limiting our own impact
The Trust produced an Environmental Action Plan in 2004 following an audit of our
energy use, transport emissions and waste creation. The plan detailed actions to take to reduce our environmental impact. We reviewed the plan in 2007 and were pleased to find that we had made progress on 80 per cent of the actions. We still have plenty to do and hope we can achieve more of the actions in the near future.
Allowing wildlife to adapt
In addition to limiting our own impacts to mitigate climate change we must work to enable our local wildlife to adapt to the changes that are already occurring. Our Living Landscapes approach is based on the need to protect, expand and enhance semi-natural habitats in order to allow species to move in response to a changing climate. Our Living Seas work has been successful in pushing for Marine Protected Areas as part of the Marine Act and aims to protect areas of important marine habitat and take the pressure off marine species, helping them to cope as our climate changes.
