 While their inaccessibility protects the plants to a certain degree against grazing by sheep and trampling by hikers, they are likely to suffer under climate change, and it is believed that "G. serotina" will be the first plant to become extinct in Britain as a result of global warming.Plans are therefore being considered to introduce the plant to sites in Scotland, where it may survive in the longer term.It became a protected species in the UK in 1975 under the Conservation of Wild Creatures and Wild Plants Act.