非洲的气候转变与生物多样性网站

非洲的气候转变与生物多样性网站

鸟盟的非洲加盟团体的一个新网站，有关气候变化对生物多样性的影响。

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[url]http://www.birdlife.org/climate_change/pdfs/Africaccbrochure.pdf" class="external" target="_blank">http://www.africa-climate-exchange.org/[/url]

原文

BirdLife launches Africa Climate Exchange

17-02-2010

The BirdLife Africa Partnership has launched a new website about climate change and its impacts on biodiversity in Africa. Developed by the BirdLife Africa Partnership, the Africa Climate Exchange (ACE) uses birds and BirdLife's Important Bird Area (IBA) network to demonstrate how biodiversity in Africa will respond to Climate Change, and what can be done to mitigate its impacts.

"The Africa Climate Exchange is an extremely valuable resource for anybody who wants to know more about the impacts of climate change on birds and biodiversity", said Dr Hazell Shokellu Thompson - BirdLife’s Regional Director for Africa.

The Africa Climate Exchange links to various sources of information on climate change in Africa and other parts of the world. It includes a rapidly growing library, currently containing over 250 documents on a wide range of climate change topics, including national and community adaptation plans, mitigation, livelihoods and economies, conventions, financing, species and ecosystems, and modeling and monitoring.

“The Africa Climate Exchange is is an extremely valuable resource” —Dr Hazell Shokellu Thompson, BirdLife International

For the first time for any taxa in Africa, a suite of maps showing how different species of birds will be impacted by climate change is available online. These maps, developed collaboratively by BirdLife International and Durham University in partnership with the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK), depict present and projected species ranges at four discrete time periods: 2009, 2025, 2055 and 2085.

The site also includes links to the latest climate change news relevant to Africa, and visitors can subscribe to receive news alerts and details of new library uploads.

The BirdLife International Africa Secretariat has also prepared a summary brochure entitled: Climate Change in Africa: What is BirdLife International doing about it? The brochure outlines how BirdLife is working with like-minded institutions and communities in Africa to ensure that adaptation measures are put in place to address climate change and points out the critical role of biodiversity and ecosystems in climate change mitigation.

"Ecosystems and biodiversity play a key role in climate change adaptation through protecting the natural resource base, providing alternative livelihood options, and maintaining resilience to future Climate Change", said Dr Julius Arinaitwe - the BirdLife Africa IBA Programme Manager. "BirdLife in Africa identifies climate change as one of the key priorities in our conservation programme", he added.

“Biodiversity and ecosystems play a significant role in climate change mitigation and adaptation” —Dr Julius Arinaitwe, BirdLife Africa IBA Programme Manager

"BirdLife in Africa identifies climate change as one of the key priorities in our conservation programme", said Dr Hazell Shokellu Thompson. "Ecosystems play a key role in Climate Change adaptation through protecting the natural resource base, providing alternative livelihood options, and maintaining resilience to future Climate Change."

BirdLife are tackling Climate Change in Africa by:

Improving resilience of key biodiversity areas (IBAs) in Africa against the impacts of Climate Change;

Working with communities to build resilience to Climate Change;

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[*]Developing an Adaptive Management Framework for species, ecosystems and people in Africa;

[*]Advocating the incorporation of best practices into national adaptation policies and strategies;

[*]Building capacity at local and national level for Climate Change adaptation;

[*]Promoting scientific modeling to improve understanding of the dispersal of species under various Climate Change conditions

[*]Knowledge sharing through Africa Climate Exchange

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The Africa Climate Exchange is an open resource, developed with financial support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Navigation has been made easy and user-friendly, and the site includes material of value to the non-specialist as well as to conservationists, academics, government agencies, Protected Area authorities, adaptation planners, NGOs, and local conservation groups and other community-based organisations.