Britain has a new snake species – should climate change mean it is allowed to stay?

By Tom Major, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Herpetology, Bournemouth University
Wolfgang Wüster, Professor of Zoology, Bangor University

All animals live in or seek a set of climate conditions they find tolerable. This “climate envelope” partially determines where animals are found, but the continued existence of many species now rests on the outcome of human-driven climate change.

Rising temperatures are moving the available climate niches of many species into areas which were previously too cool. While their…

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