You are an animal species, living in the savannah. The world is divided in four habitats based on the average temperature and precipitation (rain and snowfall) in each area. There are hotter and colder regions around you, but you find the average temperature of the savannah very comfortable. The savannah is occupied by a number of different species (the other players), all adapted to this habitat. Life is easy.

But every now and then the climate changes. When the temperature increases, the savannah expands; when it drops the savannah shrinks, and the ice sheets grow. In order to survive, species need to adapt and change quickly, or they will become extinct.

• Do you have what is needed to survive?
• Which species will you be in around 10 million years, at the end of the game?
• How will these species have changed?

Discover the answers to these questions and more in this printable board game:

The game is available in a number of languages:

• Italian
• Portuguese
• Turkish

Climate Change: the board game is also available as an online game here

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Credits

This game has been created by Dr Michela Leonardi. You can also download it, and an Italian translation, on her website.

With the help of: Dr Eleanor Miller, Dr Gian Luigi Somma, Prof Andrea Manica, of Evolutionary Ecology Group, University of Cambridge; Prof Elisa Anna Fano of Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara; Dr Rosalyn Wade of University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge.

This work has been funded by the ERC Consolidator Grant 647787: Local Adaptation

This work, including all associated images and text have been published under a Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0