Strategic Planning for Species Conservation: A Handbook - IUCN

Strategic Planning for Species Conservation
and Meru Betiri NPs (Java, Indonesia) by 2013;
• Alaungdaw Kathapa NP, Bago Yoma Reserved Forest,
and the proposed Mahamyaing WS (Myanmar) by 2013;
• all Cambodian protected areas by 2018;
• stabilize the populations in the Ea So area and Yok Don
NP (Vietnam) by 2013 and increase them by 2018.
• Determine the species’ range and status in Cambodia, China,
Kalimantan (Indonesia), 6 protected areas in Lao PDR, and Myanmar
by 2013, and in Sabah (Malaysia) by 2018.
• Reintroduce Banteng to Leuweung Sancang NR and Cikepuh GR in
Java (Indonesia; both evergreen habitat types) by 2018 and Om Koi
WS (dry forest mosaic) and Chumporn Forest Complex (evergreen
forest) in Thailand by 2018.
6.5 The process for developing the Vision and Goals
The essence of the process is a range-wide analysis of the Status Review followed by
discussion within a participatory workshop environment. As already discussed (see
Chapter 5), a Status Review for the species should have been initiated before any
workshops are held, but it should also be discussed and revised at a range-wide SCS
workshop. Range State stakeholders (especially government staff) should participate in the
range-wide Status Review alongside other, non-government, species specialists (e.g., NGO
staff and academics) to help ensure that there is broad agreement about the species’
status. Workshop organisers should be aware that some range-wide Status Reviews,
which have been conducted without the participation of those range State agencies with the
authority and responsibility to implement conservation, have subsequently been rejected by
some of those agencies. Involving multiple stakeholders at this stage also ensures that all
participants in the visioning process are familiar with the species’ status across its
geographic range, leading to a well-informed consensus on what needs to be done in order
to save the species.
Developing the Vision, Goals, and Goal Targets (as well as the Objectives, Objective
Targets, and Actions) should also take place in a participatory workshop setting (ideally at
the same range-wide strategic planning workshop that discusses and revises the Status
Review) to ensure adequate participation of all relevant stakeholder groups. For the
majority of species, which inhabit multiple countries, such a range-wide SCS workshop is
likely to be followed a series of national action planning workshops. (See also Chapter 4 on
who should be involved in preparing a SCS.)
Boxes 6.2 and 6.3 provide, respectively, examples of the development of a Vision and
associated Goals within a workshop setting. In these examples, the range-wide Status
Review and Strategic Plan were developed at an international workshop attended by
higher-level range State agency representatives, species specialists, and representatives of
major relevant NGOs, and then this workshop was followed by a national action planning
workshop for Vietnam attended by many more range State government staff including
lower-level staff (e.g., park staff), national and international NGOs, and other species
specialists.
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