New studies support conclusions of the IPPC 2001 Report that there was a 'high confidence' of a climate impact on species.

The studies (Nature vol 421, p42 & p57) show frogs are breeding, flowers are blooming and birds are migrating 2-3 days earlier each decade. Also, butterflies, birds and plants are moving toward the poles by over 6 kilometres a decade.

Having static conservation strategies while the plants and animals are moving away is a recipe for extinctions.

IPCC Report 2001 http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/tpbiodiv.pdf

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