ABSTRACT
The migration of people into Europe from North Africa, the Middle East and further afield because of war and other social turmoil has already been linked to climate change. This is not only because this has been seen as a contributor to the conflicts, but also in the sense that what we are seeing is likely to be a harbinger of things to come as the world warms further and greater numbers of people will seek more hospitable places to live. Migration applies to nature more generally, and a 2016 report from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, The Nature of Climate Change: Europe's Wildlife at Risk, explores the issues. Mike Clarke argues that we may need to be much more welcoming of nature's migrants, and therefore less precious about the idea of native species. In 2016, the European Union approved a list of Invasive Alien Species of Union Concern that member states must eradicate where possible.
