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Key Biodiversity Areas: review and lessons learned workshop agenda development

Key Biodiversity Areas: review and lessons learned workshop agenda development. Setting the agenda for a meeting on five years of Key Biodiversity Areas CI Annual Meeting 2 May 2006.

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Key Biodiversity Areas: review and lessons learned workshop agenda development

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  1. Key Biodiversity Areas:review and lessons learned workshopagenda development Setting the agenda for a meeting on five years of Key Biodiversity Areas CI Annual Meeting 2 May 2006

  2. First, some basic background:the importance of local ownership of global standards for conservation outcomes in CI Local ownership because the closer to the ground planning occurs, the better the link to implementation Global standards because CI is a global organization, accountable to global donors, and so must be able to compare between regions and over time

  3. Key Biodiversity Areas Species Sites Sea/Landscapes Extinctions Avoided Areas Protected Corridors Consolidated Biosphere Genes Increasing scale of ecological organization

  4. Key Biodiversity Areas are… Sites of global significance for biodiversity conservation Targets for ‘Areas Protected’ biodiversity conservation outcomes for CI Identified by CI CBCs, regional programs, and partners, using globally standard criteria and thresholds

  5. Key Biodiversity Areas are… Identified following standard criteria: Vulnerability (globally threatened species) Irreplaceability (>X% of global population of a species) start with restricted-range species congregations …

  6. Key Biodiversity Areas are not… Necessarily protected areas, although many are, and many more should be The “only” scale at which biodiversity conservation is urgent – they must often be complemented by targeting species specific (e.g., invasive species control) and sea/landscape scale (e.g., biodiversity conservation corridors) outcomes

  7. (Ancient) history of KBAs… BirdLife International (then ICBP) developed “Important Bird Areas” (IBAs) in the early 1980s Mid-90s: Plantlife and Important Plant Areas (IPAs) From 2000: Important Freshwater Areas, Important Mammal Areas, Important Herp Areas, Important Butterfly Areas, Important Dragonfly Areas…

  8. (Ancient) history of KBAs (cont)… …so, importance of unifying these multiple taxon-specific initiatives to avoid duplication of effort and confusion IBAs therefore become the bird subset of KBAs, IPAs the plant subset of KBAs, etc

  9. (Recent) history of KBAs… 2002: CI pioneers quantitative framework for defining biodiversity conservation outcomes, including KBAs as explicit targets at the site scale 2003: Development of AZE (launched 2005) to identify and conserve the tip-of-the-iceberg of KBAs, signed off by >50 organizations 2003: World Parks Congress leads to CBD PoW on PAs – demand for KBAs as basis for gap analysis

  10. (Recent) history of KBAs (cont)… 2004: RPD publishes CI Strategy Handbook, laying out institutional methodology for identifying KBAs 2004: MacArthur Foundation funds multi-institutional KBA workshop to solidify criteria 2004: Eken et al. published in BioScience 2005: Marine KBAs workshop

  11. Identifying KBAs within CI 2002: Development workshop in Bogotá hosted by CI Andes CBC 2003: KBA identification built into Ecosystem Profile preparation for CEPF Cycle 4 hotspots 2004 to date: KBA refinement in other CEPF hotspots and CBCs 2005: KBA identification begins in wilderness areas and marine 2006: time for review and lessons learned workshop…

  12. Progress in KBA identification and refinement 4 3 4 4 4/2 2 4 4 1 2 2 4 1 1 2 3 2 Green: Moore CBCs with KBA process underway; Yellow: hotspots where KBA refinement underway through CEPF; Purple: hotspots where KBA refinement near-completion through CEPF; Orange: KBA identification as part of CEPF Cycle 4; Blue: preliminary KBA discussions underway in marine regions; Pink: KBA identification not yet begun. Numbers denote CEPF cycle hotspots.

  13. Jan 2006: Bensted-Smith document raises eight issues regarding KBAs: Irreplaceability criteria?… thresholds need field testing Taxonomic bias?… support Red List assessments Geographic bias?… model and test research priorities Delineation?… needs review and guidelines Relationship with corridors?… field test sea/landscape scale concept development Cost?… needs review and guidelines In wilderness?… needs review and guidelines Partner engagement?… publicize successful examples

  14. Proposal for a KBA review and lessons learned workshop Today, we need to: Determine, at least to a coarse level of detail, topics of substance to be covered in the workshop Make a proposal for where and when the workshop will be held Determine, roughly, the appropriate size and origin of participants Estimate cost and how this cost will be covered

  15. Questions of substance Develop processes for field testing (e.g., irreplaceability criteria) Develop process for modeling and testing research priorities Review and guidelines paper on delineation Review and guidelines paper on cost Review and guidelines paper on wilderness KBAs Publicize successful examples of KBA collaborations Anything else?

  16. Questions of logistics When should the workshop be held?… Last week of July fits many people Where should the workshop be held?… Probably most practical/cheap to be in Washington DC Participants: at least a biodiversity analyst and some program heads from each CBC/Regional Program, some senior staff, select staff from Cons Syn, OM, RA, RAP, PPC, RPS, others? – say maximum 40 people? How should the cost be covered?

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