Cliquet et al. 1 provide a thought-provoking analysis of the challenges posed to
the EU's protected areas by climate change. This paper seeks to build on some of
the perspectives they brought to what is a highly challenging area of nature
conservation law, policy and practice. While there is much to support in their
analysis of the relationships between protected areas and climate change, there
are two key strands we seek to develop further, based on the RSPB's experience
of this area of nature conservation policy and practice: first, is the
ecological model for adapting to climate change and second, the legal framework
provided by the Birds2 and Habitats3 Directives (the Nature Directives) as it
relates to the delivery of such adaptive actions
