"Birds are messengers that provide vital insights on how climate change threatens species, habitats and communities worldwide.
This global synthesis, an assessment of hundreds of peer-reviewed studies, shows global warming already threatens ecosystems, and risks will amplify as warming continues. Despite the dire current and future danger posed by climate change, the synthesis offers hope. Its collection of nature-based solutions, including those led by BirdLife International Partners around the world, are examples of the kind of ecosystems-based adaptation and mitigation necessary to curtail this threat—for the protection of birds and humans."
-- climatechange.birdlife.org: retrieved December 9, 2015.