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species y and z’
For each HCV, identify key baseline
information.
Draw up specific management proposals
for each HCV.
Integrate the management proposals into
the broader planning process.
Develop monitoring indicators, a
monitoring plan and implement it.
The forest manager would be expected to
produce maps of where the forest type or
habitat features occur and delineate the
areas on the ground.
This should include:
• the importance (global, provincial,
local etc) of the temporal
concentration
• current status of important species
that comprise the concentration
• main trends and threats to the
maintenance of the forest type or
habitat feature that contains the
HCV
• potential management impacts on
the forest type or habitat feature
that contains the HCV
This may include active management,
restoration measures or strict protection as
appropriate. For example, it may be
appropriate to define some key reserve
areas, maintain landscape-level
connectivity, and/or ensure maintenance of
certain stand-level habitat features, such
as canopy cover.
Ensure that measures are actually
implemented, for example through
changing operational procedures and
ensuring that a training programme has
been completed.
Examples of key monitoring activies would
include:
• Specific wildlife population trends
• Habitat quality survey results
• Local people’s perceptions of the
changes to the status of the
species.
• Pre-operational planning checks
• Other quantitative data such as
hunting records from forest guards.
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.