»After the heat wave is before the heat wave: Lisa Warnecke explains the strategies animals use to defy climate change. [...] According to Warnecke, access to burrows and nests, to watering holes and shade is becoming increasingly important for animals to protect themselves from overheating. It is time to prepare human and animal habitats for the heat waves of the future.«
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

»With informative insights into her own research and that of her colleagues, she also explains the physiological and behavioural strategies of the temperature regulation of ants, turtles and mussels.«
- Info Bulletin

»Rising temperatures and extreme weather conditions: biologist Lisa Warnecke explains what various species need to adapt and survive.«
- Spektrum

- How Koalas, Elephants and Birds are Reacting to Climate Change
- How we can better protect koalas and other animals from the climate crisis
- English material available

Our weather is becoming more extreme. Droughts and bushfires in Australia, heatwaves in Europe, storms and floods in many regions of the globe. Such severe weather conditions threaten not only human beings but also the animal world. Possums are dropping dead out of the trees in their hundreds, koalas are hugging cool tree trunks – and dying anyway. Yet there are some animals that have successfully adapted.

Wildlife biologist Lisa Warnecke, conducting research in Australia, shows how dramatic the consequences of climate change are for the animal world, explains what we can learn from animals when it comes to coping with the climate crisis – and describes how we can more effectively protect species that are at the mercy of this extreme weather.

Lisa Warnecke
was born in 1978 in Frankfurt am Main, and studied biology at the Goethe University. She travelled initially to Perth for her thesis project, where she researched the physiology of Australian marsupials, then to Armidale for her dissertation.
Winnipeg in Canada was her next stop, where she studied bats with the man who is now her husband. From there she went to Hamburg, where she studied hedgehogs, wrote a book about hibernation, and had two children. She now lives with her family in Albury, Australia, where the summers feel like they last eight months and heatwaves in January are part of normal everyday life.