ICCB 2013 Program - Society for Conservation Biology

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Monday
Symposium: From Plans to Outcomes: Towards an Implementation Strategy for Conservation
Planning
Room 304
Monday, July 22, 10:30 to 12:30
Organizer(s): Vanessa Adams, Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods; Bob Pressey, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral
Reef Studies
The discipline of systematic conservation planning will be 30 years old in 2013. Its achievements around the world have been
remarkable, but its connections to conservation outcomes are still too tenuous. Regional-scale conservation planning and
local-scale conservation actions do not properly inform one another. One outcome is the ‘planning-implementation gap’.
Implementation of the best laid plans requires a multidisciplinary approach to understanding complex ecological, political and
social systems and improved engagement with diverse stakeholders. The conference theme ‘Connecting systems, disciplines, and
stakeholders’ is at the core of guiding the future research agenda to address the planning-implementation gap. Turning planning
effort into lasting actions requires existing lines of thinking to be woven together, and missing elements in implementation
strategies identified and filled. Some important elements of an implementation strategy include:
-Setting priorities for action in space and time
-Scaling down regional plans to local circumstances
-Scaling up local actions into networks
-Identifying ways of financing actions into the future
We envisage that a broad, generic strategy can be identified for any region but differences in detail will emerge between regions.
We discuss a generic strategy and present case studies of adaptation of this strategy to diverse planning situations. The case studies
also review challenges and successes in moving from plans to outcomes.
10:30 What would a generic implementation strategy look like
Bob Pressey, ARC COE for Coral Reef Studies
10:45 Putting multi-jurisdictional conservation planning into practice in California
Frank W. Davis, University of California Santa Barbara
11:00 Challenges and Opportunities in implementing Regional Conservation Plans on Private Lands and with the Private
Sector
Craig Groves and Edward Game, The Nature Conservancy
11:15 Contrasting implementation strategies for marine conservation planning in the Western Pacific
Rebecca Weeks, ARC COE for Coral Reef Studies
11:30 Marine conservation planning in practice: lessons learned from the Gulf of California
Jorge Alvarez Romero, ARC COE for Coral Reef Studies
11:45 Planning for conservation and development: can a regional strategic plan link to on ground local actions
Vanessa Adams, Charles Darwin University
12:00 Aligning local management with national conservation priorities in the assessment of high conservation value forest
areas
Daniel Segan, Wildlife Conservation Society
Open discussion follows from 12:15 to 12:30
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Behavioral Ecology and Conservation
Room 305
Monday, July 22, 10:30 to 12:30
10:30 Differences in elasmobranch assemblages between marine reserves and fished reefs on the Mesoamerican Barrier
Reef
Mark Bond, Stony Brook University; Demian Chapman, Stony Brook University; Elizabeth Babcock, Rosenstiel School of
Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
10:45 How does the Colombian squirrel monkey cope with habitat fragmentation
Xyomara Carretero-Pinzon, Colombian Primatological Association; Thomas Defler, Universidad Naiconal de Colombia;
Manuel Ruiz-Garcia, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
11:00 Feeding ecology of a reintroduced brown bear population in a human dominated environment using dna
metabarcoding and next generation sequencing
Marta De Barba, Laboratoire d’ECologie Alpine; Christian Miquel, Laboratoire d’ECologie Alpine; Frederic Boyer,
Laboratoire d’ECologie Alpine; Eric Coissac, Laboratoire d’ECologie Alpine; Pierre Taberlet, Laboratoire d’ECologie Alpine
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