Climate change is a phenomenon that continually poses challenges to the earth, its inhabitants and existing natural systems. Climate change therefore poses a threat to terrestrial biodiversity similar to land degradation and habitat loss. These are different in the sense that climate change has only recently attracted academic attention (Foden et al, 2013). Threats to diversity, such as habitat degradation, can appear at a site and cause threats on a local scale, as opposed to climate change, which is global and affects the earth as a whole. This is therefore a call for global consensus. Sommer (2010) found evidence indicating a global temperature increase of 0.6°C. This article aims to discuss the implications of climate change already visible and the expected implications on conservation and reserve design. The article will indicate the species and habitats that will be affected and how they can be protected by changing the structure of the reserves. Climate change is the alternating warming or cooling of the Earth's surface climate. It is associated with phrases such as global warming and is also closely related to glacial and interglacial processes. It is essentially a natural process but influenced by anthropogenic activities. It is a topic of interest because it has such broad implications. There is an ongoing debate about whether climate change is indeed partially motivated by anthropogenic activity. Those against it argued that it was just a natural process and that humans had no role in it. This is the initial reason for the formation of the IPCC. Short for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, it highlights the evidence of climate change and how humans have caused it. Activities that involve the central part of paper management and conservation planning. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1165, 79–98. Mawdsley, J.R., O'Malley, R. and Ojima, D.S. 2009: A review of climate change adaptation strategies for wildlife management and biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology, 23(5), 1080–1089. Meadows, M.E. 2005: Global and climate change in southern Africa. Geographical Research, 44(2), 135-145. Midgley, G.F., Hannah, L., Miller, D., Rutherford, M.C., and Powrie, L.W. 2002: Assessing the vulnerability of species richness to anthropogenic climate change in a biodiversity hotspot. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 11, 445–451. Sommer, J.H., Kreft, H., Kier, G., Jetz, W., Mutke, J., and Barthlott, W. 2010: Projected impacts of climate change on regional capacities for global plant species richness. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 277, 2271–2280.