CAP Quick Tour

Whooping Crane CAP – Kearney, NE

Conservation Action

Planning

Defining Your Project

Developing Strategies &

Measures

Implementing Strategies &

Measures

Using Results to Adapt & Improve

29 June 2004

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Developing Strategies &

Measures

Implementing Strategies &

Measures

Using Results to Adapt & Improve

Defining Your Project

Defining Your Project

· Project people· Project scope & focal

targets

Defining Your Project

· Project people· Project scope & focal

targetsWho will design and implement the project?

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Yunnan

Condor Bioreserve, Ecuador

Defining Your Project

· Project people· Project scope & focal targetsWhat is the

overall vision and scale of the project?

Defining Your Project

· Project people· Project scope &

focal targets

Which parts of the Life history or biology to we care about most?

Defining Your Project

Developing Strategies &

Measures

Implementing Strategies &

Measures

Using Results to Adapt & Improve

Developing Strategies & Measures

· Target viability· Critical threats· Situation analysis· Objectives & actions· Measures

Developing Strategies & Measures

· Target viability· Critical threats· Situation analysis· Objectives & actions· Measures

Overall Viability Summary

Conservation Targets

Landscape Context

Condition SizeViability Rank

1North Shore Forests & Cliffs Fair Good Fair Fair

2 Montane Wet Forest FairVery Good

Fair Good

3South Slope Mesic Forest & Shrubland Poor Good Poor Fair

Overall Biodiversity Health Rank Fair

What is our best estimate of how the biology/life history we care about is doing?

Developing Strategies & Measures

· Target viability· Critical threats· Situation analysis· Objectives & actions· Measures

What threats are creating problems and what is the estimated seriousness of these threats?

Threats Across Systems North

Shore Forests &

Cliffs

Montane Wet Forest

South Slope Mesic

Forest & Shrubland

North Shore

Perennial Streams

South Shore

Fringing Reef

Overall Threat Rank

Project-specific threats

1Established Non-Native Ungulates (Pigs, Goats, Axis Deer)

High High High Low High High

2New Invasive Plant and Animal Species

High High High Medium - High

3Established Habitat-Modifying Weeds

High High High - - High

4 Wildfires - Medium High - High High

5 Over Harvesting - - - Low High Medium

6Invasive Alien Marine Species

- - - - High Medium

7 Invasive Alien Algae - - - - High Medium

Threat Status for Targets and Project

High High High Medium High Very High

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Development of Roads& Utilities

Primary Home Development

Woodland & Shrub Systems

Sage Brush Shrb

Desert Shrub

PJ Woodland

Fire RegimeFire

SuppressionAgency Policies

Public Attitudes

Oil & Gas Drilling

Montane Shrub

Historic Grazing

Invasive Plants- cheatgrass- knapweed

Lack of Surface Fires

O7

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Gunnison Prairie DogPlague

Shooting & Poisoning

Attitudes Toward

Prairie Dogs O9

Situation Analysis for San Miguel Terrestrial Targets

O3

Developing Strategies & Measures

· Target viability· Critical threats· Situation analysis· Objectives & actions· Measures

Who are the key stakeholders with vested interest in the project, what factors are driving critical threats, and what opportunities exist?

Developing Strategies & Measures

· Target viability· Critical threats· Situation analysis· Objectives & actions· Measures

What specific outcomes are we trying to achieve?

• By 2008, reduce the mean percent cover of invasive species to less than 5% across over at least 9,000 acres of invaded forest.

Developing Strategies & Measures

· Target viability· Critical threats· Situation analysis· Objectives & actions· Measures

What actions are needed to achieve the outcomes?Objective Ungulates: By 2014, reduce

the frequency of ungulate activity to less than 10% in areas with active ungulate control programs.

Strategic action

Continue to develop and implement a comprehensive ungulate control program through the East Molokai Watershed Partnership.

Objective Wildfires: By 2009, reduce the amount of burned native ecological systems to zero.

Strategic action

Work with key fire management partners to develop and implement a landscape fire management strategy and action plan.

Developing Strategies &

Measures

Developing Strategies & Measures

· Target viability· Critical threats· Situation analysis· Objectives & actions· Measures

Percentage of native canopy coverIndicator:

Acres and density of specific weedsIndicator:

Weeds: By 2014, reduce or contain (as appropriate to specific species) the range and/or density of habitat-modifying weeds within selected management units.

Objective:

Frequency of ungulate signIndicator:

Ungulates: By 2014, reduce the frequency of ungulate activity to less than 10% in areas with active ungulate control programs.

Objective:

Number of discovered or reported incipient invasive species eradicated

Indicator:

Number of priority incipient invasive species kept off the island

Indicator:

New invasives: Prevent the establishment of new invasive plant or animal species on the island.

Objective:

Objectives and Indicators#

 East Molokai

 StrategiesStrategy effectiveness measures

Are our actions achieving the desired outcomes?

Defining Your Project

Developing Strategies &

Measures

Implementing Strategies &

Measures

Using Results to Adapt & Improve

ImplementingStrategies & Measures

· Develop workplans· Implement actions· Implement measures

ImplementingStrategies & Measures

· Develop workplans· Implement actions· Implement measures

What do we specifically need to do, and who will do it? How much will it cost?

Defining Your Project

Developing Strategies &

Measures

Implementing Strategies &

Measures

Using Results to Adapt & Improve

Using Results toAdapt & Improve

· Analyze actions & data· Learn from results· Adapt project· Share findings

Using Results to Adapt & Improve

Using Results toAdapt & Improve

· Analyze actions & data· Learn from results· Adapt project· Share findings

How should we adapt our actions and share results to achieve impact at broader scales?

FY05 CAP Working Group• Jeff Baumgartner, Global

Conservation Approach Team • Silvia Benitez, Ecuador Program • Lacey Halstead, Texas Program • Cristina Lasch, Mexico Program • Genevieve Pence, Florida Program • Nick Salafsky, Foundations of

Success • Dan Salzer, Global Conservation

Approach Team • Rob Sutter, Southern U.S. Region • Jora Young, Global Conservation

Approach Team

CAP Basic Practices

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Speaking of Measuring…

Project Scope

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Map of What We Have Discussed

Project Scope

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Prioritize Direct Threats

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Action Plan: Vision and Goals

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Action Plan: Strategies

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Action Plan: Strategies

Action Plan: Objectives and Activities

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Action Plan: Strategies and Results Chains

The Basic Components of a Results Chain:

Result(Direct Threat)

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Impact on

TargetObjective ObjectiveGoal

So What?

• This is about Impact– Biodiversity– Partners

• Its also about Money– Transparency of Thought (Common Language)– Business Plan

How Can We Use It?

• Provide Internal Service– Philanthropy

• Marketing– Government Relations– Executive Leadership

And More… 2015

• Summarizing the 2015 Goal & Ecoregional Measures– Biodiversity Status– Threat Status– Effective Management Status

• What is the biodiversity of interest and its status?• What threats exist and what’s their importance?• Which stakeholders should be engaged, what

underlying causes and opportunities warrant attention?

• What specific outcomes are we trying to achieve?• What actions are we taking to achieve the desired

outcomes?• How do we know if our actions are working?• How can we adapt and learn and share results to

achieve impact at broader scales?

Conservation Action Planning