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Upper Wind Creek, Bridger Mountains
photographs (c) George Wuerthner
photographs (c) George Wuerthner
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The Conservation Planning Institute
To identify and implement priority areas for biodiversity protection.
Our mission
To identify and implement priority areas for biodiversity protection using
systematic conservation planning methods, partnering with conservation
organizations and others.
To provide conservation planning education and training.
To conduct research to advance the science of systematic conservation
planning.
To make our findings available to the public.
Our methods
We believe conservation planning must be done within an implementation
framework to be effective. Implementation strategies and tactics must be
adapted to each area’s unique social systems, just as conservation planning
methods must be adapted to unique biological systems.
We work with social scientists to understand a region’s governance, politics,
economics, and people so we can provide conservation planning
that is relevant to the implementation process.
Conservation planning includes five stages:
1) Gathering data on the locations of biodiversity components (species,
communities, ecosystems, processes);
2) Assessing the extent to which biodiversity is represented in existing
protected areas;
3) Identifying additional areas needed for full biodiversity protection;
4) Implementing protection of those areas; and
5) Monitoring protected areas to assure persistence of biological diversity over
time.
(Source: Margules, C. R., and R. L. Pressey. 2000. Systematic conservation
planning. Nature 405:243-253.)
To identify and implement priority areas for biodiversity protection using
systematic conservation planning methods, partnering with conservation
organizations and others.
To provide conservation planning education and training.
To conduct research to advance the science of systematic conservation
planning.
To make our findings available to the public.
Our methods
We believe conservation planning must be done within an implementation
framework to be effective. Implementation strategies and tactics must be
adapted to each area’s unique social systems, just as conservation planning
methods must be adapted to unique biological systems.
We work with social scientists to understand a region’s governance, politics,
economics, and people so we can provide conservation planning
that is relevant to the implementation process.
Conservation planning includes five stages:
1) Gathering data on the locations of biodiversity components (species,
communities, ecosystems, processes);
2) Assessing the extent to which biodiversity is represented in existing
protected areas;
3) Identifying additional areas needed for full biodiversity protection;
4) Implementing protection of those areas; and
5) Monitoring protected areas to assure persistence of biological diversity over
time.
(Source: Margules, C. R., and R. L. Pressey. 2000. Systematic conservation
planning. Nature 405:243-253.)