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Draw up specific management proposals
for each HCV.
Options include, but are not limited to:
• Active management
• Restoration measures
• Strict protection
For example, it may be appropriate to
demarcate:
Some key reserve areas
• Areas that maintain landscape-level
connectivity
• Areas that ensure maintenance of
certain stand-level habitat features,
such as provision of standing
deadwood or riparian zone
protection
Integrate the management proposals into
the broader planning process.
Develop monitoring indicators, a
monitoring plan and implement it.
Other options may arise in the context of
the HCV being managed. Expert guidance
may be needed.
Ensure that measures are actually
implemented, for example through
changing operational procedures and
ensuring that a training programme has
been completed to ensure those changes
are followed through.
Examples of key monitoring indicators
would include:
• Specific wildlife population and
distribution trends in the FMU
• Maintenance of habitat extents,
quality and connectivity
• Pre-operational planning checks
• Other quantitative data like records
of hunting from forest guards
The forest manager should be aware of
changes to the level of landscape and
national protection of the HCVs.
Where the HCVs include samples of natural
ecosystems within a substantially altered
landscape, features that help to maintain
those HCVs within the landscape (e.g.
corridors and buffers) should be monitored.