Wildlife British wildlife may not survive third wet summer


	Wildlife British wildlife may not survive third wet summer

JICWyllie

12-27-2008 1:18 PM

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environment, i-climate change, i-extinction, i-increase, i-forecast

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f4fd9c34-d918-4df0-bef1-d27295476e9a/0DA406A8-E8AA-40CE-B5B1-AA7724A980A5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/27/national-trust-audit-wildlife-weather" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/27/national-trust-audit-wildlife-weather" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/27/national-trust-audit-wildlife-weather"><P>A third miserable summer in parts of the UK could spell disaster for many species of insects, birdlife and mammals, the National Trust warns today. </P><P>The charity says three wet summers in a row in many regions could mean that creatures - ranging from craneflies (often called daddy-long-legs) to species of butterflies, members of the tit family, puffins and bats - may struggle to survive in some places. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/27/national-trust-audit-wildlife-weather">"<A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/climatechange">Climate change</A> is not some future prediction of what might happen. It's happening now and having a serious impact on our countryside every year."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/27/national-trust-audit-wildlife-weather">The warning comes in a yearly audit produced by the National Trust of how the <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/weather">weather</A> in 2008 affected wildlife</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0DA406A8-E8AA-40CE-B5B1-AA7724A980A5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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