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Welcome to Wildlife Britain:
A place on the web that brings information regarding Britain's great wealth of wildlife to the fore. We focus on the activity you can do to help conserve this diversity, as well as great places around the country where you can experience plants and animals first hand, be it whale watching in Northern Scotland, surveying the soaring Gannets off Grassholm or enjoying the swallows over head on a summers evening in your back garden.
Britain has an incredible selection of animals that have evolved to cope with our mild damp climate, producing many animals that struggle to live anywhere else in the world. Because we are an island, this keeps our summers warm and wet and our winters generally mild and well. wet. This consistent lack of extremes provides an excellent footing for wide varieties of animals that know that they can bank on food being available virtually all year round.
This does however put us at an advantage in one sense but also at a disadvantage. Much like the rail system, if extremes do occur then they cause serious problems because the ecosystems are not designed to deal with them. Due to climate change we are experiencing a far greater number of extremes which is shifting the nature of our islands animal life. Foreign species are able to thrive, taking over from native wildlife and forcing them into the margins, new pests have emerged and are able to spread to parts where they were previously unable to reach.
