Date published: 2007/05/25
The BBC says:
A warm spring has brought about the early arrival of some UK wildlife, the first results of the Springwatch 2007 survey suggest.
Over the past few months, amateur naturalists have logged more than 24,000 first sightings of six key species of plants and animals.
Some, such as the peacock butterfly and frogspawn, have been spotted earlier than expected.
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Mr Collinson [, head of conservation policy at the Woodland Trust, ] was worried about the possible impact of increasingly warm springs.He said: "We are concerned because the change seems to be so rapid.
"And we know there is a mismatch of timing, so, for example, when insects would pollinate flowers, the flowers are coming out earlier than the insects are available, and we know this is happening.
"It is very difficult to tell what that means, but certainly we know that wildlife is under pressure."
They run the same story every year.
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