Materials to Get You Started
Just getting started with your adaptation planning? Below is a helpful list of seminal resources, expert organizations, assessments and sample plans below for your use. Click the tabs below to view materials by sector.
Leading Organizations in the Wildlife Sector
The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) is comprised of member fish and wildlife agencies from every level of government. The Association provides member agencies with coordination services on cross-cutting as well as species-based...
NCCWSC is a USGS center for collaborative research in climate change impacts on fish and wildlife communities, working with partner agencies to develop tools that resource managers can use to protect these species and their habitats. The Center...
The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) is America's largest conservation organization, working with more than 4 million members, partners and supporters in communities across the country to protect and restore wildlife habitat, confront...
The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild places worldwide, through science, global conservation, education and the management of the world's largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo. Their work...
Exemplary Wildlife Resources
The NatureServe Climate Change Vulnerability Index can help identify plant and animal species that are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Using the Index, information is readily available about a species' natural...
Published by the Heinz Center, this report provides a review of scientific literature on climate change adaptation as it relates to biodiversity conservation and wildlife management, and assesses climate change adaptation plans developed in the...
The WCS Climate Adaptation Fund is a program to support projects that demonstrate effective interventions for wildlife adaptation to climate change. With funding provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and managed by the Wildlife...
Wildlife Assessments
National Assessments
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Scanning the Conservation Horizon: A Guide to Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment |
Sample State and Local Assessments
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Wildlife Adaptation Plans
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Voluntary Guidance for States to Incorporate Climate Change into State Wildlife Action Plans & Other Management Plans |
Sample State and Local Plans
View more: Wildlife plans | Plans by state
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