Climate change is already impacting wildlife worldwide. WMI is working to provide solutions to understand better how wildlife will respond to a changing climate. From understanding threatened and endangered species habitat use to human-wildlife conflicts and invasive species, WMI is working to establish a community to help better deal with these challenges. The overarching theme of this community is a synthesis of movement ecology and tracking technology, focusing on using this knowledge to help address species' responses to climate change. As movement is essential for everything an animal does in its lifetime, understanding animal movement helps us identify how individuals select habitats and determine the impacts on life history traits and residence patterns. These data are paramount to informing and improving species protection from anthropogenic threats, from climate change to human encroachment. As climate change is more pressing now than ever, a core component of the infrastructure for response is determining how policies will impact species. Understanding how native and non-native wildlife responds not only to climate change but to our policies for reductions in GHGs is critical to their management and conservation.
