Anthropogenic climate change affects countless, if not all, present animals in the wild and will continue to affect even far more in the foreseeable future. Most of these consequences are bad, such as heat waves, droughts, forest fires, and floods, often followed by increased hardships like resource scarcity, starvation, injuries, and heightened diseases and parasitism.

Yet, very little attention has been paid to whether we should help wild animals, and sometimes even cases have been made that we shouldn't. I don't think this is justified. We cause harm to them, and, therefore, we have strong reasons to either mitigate the negative impacts or assist them (or both). Backed up by the present ethical literature, I will present solutions and suggest different paths forward, from policy and law changes to the establishment of dedicated study fields, and will draw comparisons from recent successes. As many of the consequences are still ahead of us, I will offer a somewhat optimistic view, as it also means we can still mitigate a large part of our otherwise predominantly negative impacts.