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Session 4: Species Conservation and Connectivity and the IUCN category system

Session 4: Species Conservation and Connectivity and the IUCN category system Dr. Holly Dublin – May 10, 2007.

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Session 4: Species Conservation and Connectivity and the IUCN category system

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  1. Session 4: Species Conservation and Connectivity and the IUCN category system Dr. Holly Dublin – May 10, 2007

  2. CHARGE: How can the Category system be used as a more effective tool to enhance species conservation and better conservation at a landscape level? (covering: role of zoning, role of different categories within the landscape mosaic, areas outside protected area networks, corridors, etc.)

  3. SPECIES As conservation Targets, per se As tools for achieving other conservation objectives – e.g.connectivity

  4. Protected Areas SPECIES • Need for more attention to species; • Commissioned paper for input to this task force • Need for strategy that integrates Pas and species in an integrated framework – perhaps a new principle • Species conservation need to be captured in ‘rationale’ of the WCPA

  5. Central Concern: The emphasis on PAs has confused a tool for an outcome. The species focus (and other elements of biodiversity) has gotten lost and needs to be stressed as an outcome of PA establishment and management.

  6. Key Areas for Interaction between WCPA and SSC: 1. Site selection of new PAs needs to consider covering areas holding threatened species 2. Management effectiveness needs to include species persistence/conservation – especially for threatened/vulnerable species “Condition” is not enough. 3. This “management effectiveness” needs to include individual PAs, the full range of categories, PA systems within a nation; PA systems across the range of a species 4. Need for technical guidance across both groups (e.g. climate change and invasives)

  7. Key Areas for Interaction between WCPA and SSC …cont’d….. 5. There should be special rules for invasive species i.d. and management that allow special consideration of management in categories? 6. Need to make sure PA systems are cover all elements of biodiversity 7. Governance may also be key in understanding what types of management (including PAs) are most effective in species conservation (particularly for species that migrate or move well outside PA boundaries or just ARE outside the PA).

  8. Key Areas for Interaction between WCPA and SSC …cont’d….. 8. It is critical for species conservation efforts to include protected areas as one part of a strategy, but there must be a consideration of strategies beyond protected areas. In fact, there are real dangers in looking at protected areas as refugia for vulnerable species – islands in a barren sea of McDonalds, Carre Fours and development.

  9. Key Areas for Interaction between WCPA and SSC …cont’d….. 9. Stress that PAs will not always be an effective tool for achieving conservation of species (e.g. things that area-based planning won’t solve : disease and climate change)

  10. Species and Connectivity … • PAs are fundamental to species survival but not sufficient, you need connectivity between them • But, the connectivity should not require PAs, but must entail other land use types and incentive systems between PAs • Species conservation may make more general conservation possible by being better understood as an entry point.

  11. Species and connectivity cont’d … 4. Connectivity should not be pursued just for its own sake, but when it is justified for specific conservation outcomes (because it has costs: opportunity and direct). 5. Papallacta Declaration has good details on this topic relevant to mountain systems (see Harvey and colleagues) 6. We should strive to maximize altitudinal and ecological diversity within as well as across PAs.

  12. Species and connectivity cont’d … 7. The nature of connectivity in freshwater and marine systems needs to be taken into consideration – especially the limits of geographical designation of areas due to temporal and spatial variation in currents/upwellings and one-way movement etc.. Just new PA establishment won’t solve many species conservation problems in freshwater and marine systems

  13. Species and connectivity cont’d … 8. Concern that PAs (even in the fulsomeness of their categories) are not enough to achieve conservation. Interest in opening to consideration of large scale, systematic conservation; perhaps even the Ecosystem Approach. Interest in linking the species concern with that of the groups looking at marine, freshwater, forests, etc.

  14. Species and connectivity cont’d … 9. Concern that connectivity may not always be the appropriate concept – but that permeability may be the critical concern for things like migratory bats and birds

  15. Other issues: • Possible utility of case studies where successful conservation has been shown of species across broader landscapes • Greater possible investment by conservation community in landuse planning/governance types outside PAs (e.g. private lands and indigenous/community lands) • 4. Different political/social/ecological settings may require different approaches to achieving species conservation • 5. Successfully addressing species conservation requires a “One IUCN - One Program” concept that draws upon skills of all commissions

  16. Humans must learn to live together with the rest of the world’s species. Thank you! Photo by Carlo Allegri/Getty Images

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