Strategic Planning for Species Conservation: A Handbook - IUCN

Strategic Planning for Species Conservation
Goals thus have the same long-term time frame and wide spatial
scale as the vision. Goals use the same criteria for what it means to
save a species that were agreed when developing the Vision (e.g.,
striving to achieve ecologically functioning populations).
Goal Target Goal Targets provide a medium-term (typically 5–10 years) subset
of the Goals. Thus they represent those Goals that can realistically
be achieved over the lifetime of the SCS (and/or those steps
towards achieving the Goals that can realistically be achieved over
the lifetime of the SCS). Like all targets, Goal targets should be
SMART.
GIS Geographic Information System.
Indicator (of success) A single measure of achievement; or a description of the conditions
that would show that a particular Action had been implemented
successfully. Good indicators are measurable, precise, consistent,
and sensitive.
IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature.
NGO Non-governmental organization.
Objective Broad summaries of the approaches to be taken in attempting to
achieve a strategy’s Vision and Goals. Each objective usually relates
to a logically related set of threats and constraints; for example, if
lack of capacity were to be identified as a constraint on effective
conservation of a species, then one obvious Objective would be to
develop capacity.
Objective Target Detailed, time-bound, summaries of what needs to be achieved to
attain a strategy’s Vision and Goals. Objective Targets help to group
Actions into logically related clusters.
Problem Tree A visualization technique, useful for informing the development of
Objectives, which links proximate threats with their ultimate causes
and constraints. Proximate threats to species are represented at the
bottom of the diagram, with ultimate causes at the top.
PVA Population Viability Analysis.
PHVA Population and Habitat Viability Assessment; an interactive,
participatory workshop process that generates extinction risk
assessments based upon in-depth analysis of information on the life
history, population dynamics, ecology, and history of a population.
Red List The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species TM is an annually updated
inventory of the extinction risk and global conservation status of
plant and animal species.
Red List Categories The IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria are intended to be an
easily and widely understood system for classifying species at high
risk of global extinction. The general aim of the system is to provide
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