Climate Crisis Alert: New Species Arriving UK
Rewilding has been one of the main environmental stories of 2022, with species reintroductions or emigrations.
According to recent research, lots of new species have arrived in the United Kingdom due to climate change. Many animals from all over the world are fleeing nations that are becoming too hot and relocating to locations that were previously too cold. New arrivals in the UK include birds like the little bittern and the Eurasian spoonbill and invertebrates like the little red-eyed damselfly.
According to experts, birds and insects are being treated as ecological refugees rather than climatic opportunists. The entrance of various species of birds and insects to the UK is mainly welcomed, according to a University of Exeter study, while people are less enthusiastic about creatures they are unfamiliar with.
On the other hand, some species are coming back to their habitats after years, such as the northern pool frog. It is coming back on Thompson Common in Norfolk, where it was last heard before going extinct in England some 20 years ago. In July, 300 tadpoles were released, increasing the total number of tadpoles released over the six-year initiative to almost 1,000. The highly endangered northern pool frog is England’s rarest amphibian, having been pushed to extinction in East Anglia due to the degradation of wetland habitats. The frogs have created a self-sustaining population, according to conservationists, reproducing successfully on various ponds. Frogs will have the best chance of surviving if vegetation is kept to a minimum and ponds are kept generally open. Other reptiles and amphibians that benefit from it include the common toad, great crested newt, smooth newt, and grass snake.
Not knowing exactly how this arrival will cause us in the future, it is clear as day that some things have been changing over the past few years. Hence, it is critically a must to be careful about how we treat the environment as we will be seeing more the costs of our actions to the climate, environmental life and eventually us, if not!
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