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Strategic Planning for Species Conservation Other members of the SSC Species Conservation Planning Task Force • Julian Blanc, CITES MIKE (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants) Programme • Urs Breitenmoser, University of Bern; Co-chair, IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group; Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe Working Group • Dena Cator, IUCN Species Programme • Philippe Chardonnet, International Foundation for the Conservation of Wildlife; Cochair, IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group • Holly Dublin, Chair, IUCN Species Survival Commission; Chair, IUCN/SSC African Elephant Specialist Group • Richard Emslie, Scientific Officer, IUCN/SSC African Rhino Specialist Group • David Garshelis, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources; Co-chair, IUCN/ SSC Bear Specialist Group • John Haslett, Department of Organismal Biology, University of Salzburg • Margaret Kinnaird, Mpala Research Centre and Conservancy and the Wildlife Conservation Society • Susan Lieberman, World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) • Michael Maunder, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden; IUCN/SSC Plant Conservation Sub-Committee • Patricia Medici, Chair, IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group • Russel Mittermeier, Conservation International; Chair, IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group • Deborah Procter, IUCN/SSC Invertebrate Conservation Sub-Committee • John Robinson, Wildlife Conservation Society • Pritpal Soorae, Environment Agency, Abu Dhabi; Program Officer and Reptiles and Amphibians Section Chair, IUCN/SSC Re-introduction Specialist Group x
Glossary of terms and abbreviations xi Glossary Actions The activities which need to be implemented to achieve the Strategy’s Objectives and, ultimately, its Goals and Vision. Actors Those individuals responsible for Actions. Area of Occupancy The Red List term “Area of occupancy” is defined as the area within its “extent of occurrence” which is occupied by a taxon, excluding cases of vagrancy. The measure reflects the fact that a taxon will not usually occur throughout the area of its extent of occurrence, which may contain unsuitable or unoccupied habitats. In some cases (e.g., irreplaceable colonial nesting sites, crucial feeding sites for migratory taxa) the area of occupancy is the smallest area essential at any stage to the survival of existing populations of a taxon. The size of the area of occupancy will be a function of the scale at which it is measured, and should be at a scale appropriate to relevant biological aspects of the taxon, the nature of threats and the available data. (For an illustration, see http:// www.iucnredlist.org/info/categories_criteria2001#definitions accessed 25 July 2008.) Causal Flow Diagram A graphical technique for describing and analysing real or hypothesized cause-and-effect relationships. CBD Convention on Biological Diversity. CBSG Conservation Breeding Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. CEESP Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy of the IUCN. CEM Commission on Ecosystem Management of the IUCN. Constraint Factors which contribute to or compound the threats. For example, lack of political will and resources might contribute to a lack of law enforcement, leading in turn to over-exploitation. Direct threat See “Threat” below. Extent of Occurrence Red List term used to define the area contained within the shortest continuous imaginary boundary which can be drawn to encompass all the known, inferred, or projected sites of present occurrence of a taxon, excluding cases of vagrancy. This measure may exclude discontinuities or disjunctions within the overall distributions of taxa (e.g., large areas of obviously unsuitable habitat; but see “area of occupancy”). Extent of occurrence can often be measured by a minimum convex polygon (the smallest polygon in which no internal angle exceeds 180 degrees and which contains all the sites of occurrence). Goal A rephrasing of the Vision in operational terms to capture in greater detail what needs to be done, and where (to save the species).
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