Conserve our current wildlife and wild places

Our priority must be to conserve and enhance the diversity of wildlife and the wild places we enjoy today, establishing wildlife-rich areas to provide the seed corn for future expansion into the wider landscape.

A key factor is to identify those species which will be most under threat and provide the necessary conditions for them to adapt and evolve. We have a major part to play in the future of Sussex habitats and species and the importance of conserving current high quality wildlife sites cannot be overemphasised.

Changing climate may cause animals and plants to move location in order to survive, possibly resulting in today’s rare species becoming more commonplace and the familiar less prominent.

ACTION
We will continue to care for our existing major landholdings – for example Ebernoe Common (West Sussex) and The Malling Downs (East Sussex).

To find out more about these two important nature reserves and our other nature sites please click here.

Sussex Wildlife Trust has identified four key areas to combat the affects of climate change:

• Conserve our current wildlife and wild places
  
• Create large areas for wildlife and establish ecological networks
  
• Increase variety in our landscape
  
• Reduce damage to nature from sources other than climate change