Strategic Planning for Species Conservation: A Handbook - IUCN

More documents

Recommendations

Info

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. 45
6.6 Minimizing tension between range-wide or regional Goal Targets and national or local Action Plans 46 6. Vision and Goals Having detailed site-specific Goals Targets should not create a problematic tension between range-wide or regional SCSs and national or local Action Plans, because national government officials, national NGO staff, and other national species specialists and conservationists will have participated in the SCS writing process, and should have added sites to the minimum set identified at the range-wide level (this was the case, for example, in the recently completed draft National Action Plan for the Conservation of Vietnam’s Wild Cattle and Buffaloes which has additional sites to those identified during the earlier Strategic Planning Workshop for Southeast Asia’s Wild Cattle and Buffaloes; see section 9.5). Furthermore, there should be different time-scales for the range-wide and national processes, with the national action plans more concerned with determining the Actions needed in the short-term (1–5 yrs). 6.7 The advantages of having explicit Vision statements, Goals, and Goal Targets Explicitly stating and building consensus around a long-term range-wide Vision and its associated Goals and Goal Targets is likely to lead to effective conservation because: • It allows all the participants to explicitly discuss what saving the species actually means; • The Vision, Goals, and Goal Targets provide a mechanism to align conservation partners, including range State authorities, around a unified effort; • The Vision, Goals, and Goal Targets make it clear to range States, the donor community, and the wider public what the SCS aims to achieve; • The Goal Targets provide the basis for establishing indicator metrics to measure the effects of Actions so that it is possible to demonstrate successes or modify the interventions when they are failing or underperforming.
Page 1:
Strategic Planning for Species Cons
Page 4 and 5:
Marine iguanas (Amblyrhynchus crist
Page 6 and 7:
The designation of geographical ent
Page 8 and 9:
Page 10 and 11:
Page 12 and 13: Strategic Planning for Species Cons
Page 18 and 19: 1. The evolution of SSC’s plannin
Page 28 and 29: 3. When should a Species Conservati
Page 34 and 35: 4. Who should be involved in develo
Page 38 and 39: 5. Status Review This chapter descr
Page 56 and 57: 6. Vision and Goals This chapter de
Page 64 and 65: 7. Objectives This chapter describe
Page 74 and 75: 8. Actions This chapter describes A
Page 92 and 93: 9. Using a Species Conservation Str
Page 106 and 107: Photo 10.4 A cloud forest in Rwenzo
Page 112 and 113:
Page 114 and 115:
Page 116 and 117:
Lead authors and contributors This
Page 118 and 119:
Page 120 and 121:
Page 123:
IUCN, International Union for Conse
show all

Strategic Planning for Species Conservation: A Handbook - IUCN

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?