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Prioritizing Species and Actions Protocol

Prioritizing Species and Actions Protocol. Rita Dixon Idaho Department of Fish and Game. Why prioritize?. MOST critical needs. Species with the GREATEST conservation need. PRECLUDE the need to list. http://teaming.com/sites/default/files/SWAP%20Best%20Practices-110212-for%20website.pdf.

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Prioritizing Species and Actions Protocol

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  1. Prioritizing Species and Actions Protocol Rita Dixon Idaho Department of Fish and Game

  2. Why prioritize?

  3. MOST critical needs

  4. Species with the GREATEST conservation need

  5. PRECLUDE the need to list

  6. http://teaming.com/sites/default/files/SWAP%20Best%20Practices-110212-for%20website.pdfhttp://teaming.com/sites/default/files/SWAP%20Best%20Practices-110212-for%20website.pdf

  7. “Best Practice” method or technique, through experience and research, has consistently shown results superior to those achieved by other means

  8. Joseph, L. N., R. F. Maloney, and H. P. Possingham. 2009. Optimal allocation of resources among threatened species: a project prioritization protocol. Conservation Biology 23:328–338.

  9. Optimal Allocation Joseph et al. 2009

  10. (1) Define objectives e.g., To secure (over a period of 50 years) the greatest number of threatened species of value given a limited budget

  11. (2) List biodiversity assets of interest

  12. (3) Weight assets • Cultural significance • Social values • Economic importance • Evolutionary significance • Ecological function • Endemicity • Taxonomic distinctiveness • Climate Change Sensitivity • Threat status • Conservation responsibility of jurisdiction for species

  13. Levels of Endemism: State

  14. Levels of Endemism: Ecoregion

  15. Levels of Endemism: Region

  16. Taxonomic distinctiveness • 3 families • 8 genera • 7 species Weight = the number of families in the order the number of genera in the family the number of species in the genus Weight = 0.0771492 http://www.catalogueoflife.org/

  17. http://climatechangesensitivity.org/

  18. Assess Risk • Range/Distribution • Abundance/Condition • Threats • Trends (short- & long-term)

  19. Threat Status • SH Possibly Extirpated • S1 Critically Imperiled • S2 Imperiled • S3 Vulnerable • S4 Apparently Secure • S5 Secure

  20. (4) List management projects • Choose an appropriate project for each species • Project is minimum set of all necessary actions for obtaining a reasonable (≥95%) probability of securing the species over 50 y • 4 compulsory components: • outcome monitoring • services and support • project management • infrastructure • at least one optional intervention (e.g., captive breeding, translocation, pest animal control, weed control, legal actions, education) • Specify precise location, intensity, and duration of management for each action

  21. (5) Calculate the cost of each project • Total estimated cost over a 10-year period (i.e., SWAP revision period)

  22. (6) Predict the benefit to assets The overall “biodiversity benefit,” of project i, , is the difference between the two probabilities above calculated as:

  23. (7) Estimate likelihood of success • Mi= probability that each project, i, could be implemented successfully • Ni= probability that, if implemented successfully, it would be reasonably (≥95%) successful in securing the species • Total probability of success of each project, Si, = MiNi

  24. (8) State constraints • Identify constraints on the projects and the total budget • Primary constraint is total budget available

  25. (9) Rank projects • W = Values • B = Benefits • S = Likelihood of success • C = Costs

  26. Idaho’s Online Prioritization Tool https://fishandgame.idaho.gov/species/node/add/swap-species-prioritization

  27. Idaho’s Online Prioritization Tool https://fishandgame.idaho.gov/species/node/add/swap-species-projects-actions-fo

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