Climate change represents a major challenge to current conservation strategies, as it can compromise the persistence of biodiversity within existing protected areas, such as Natura 2000 sites.

The development of the project “Strategies for the adaptation of the Natura 2000 Network to climate change”, led by the Forest Technology Centre of Catalonia, with the support of the Biodiversity Foundation, has made it possible to see how the distribution of birds listed in the Birds Directive within the RN2000 in Catalonia will vary towards 2050 as a result of the predicted climate change scenarios, which will mean a decrease in their presence in these protected areas, especially in species of open habitats. Priority areas have been identified whose future management will be of vital importance for the proper management of the species that have been the subject of this study.