WWF Standards of Conservation

Project & Programme Management

Definizione dei Target di conservazione

Versione: Settembre, 2008

Corrado Teofili

WWF Program Management Cycle Initial team Scope & vision Features/targets Context & stakeholders

1. Define

Goals & objectives Strategic activities Monitoring plan Operational plan

2. Design

Workplans & budgets Fund raising Capacity building Partnerships

3. Implement

Incoming data Results & assumptions Operational functions Plans & budgets

4. Analyze/Adapt

Lessons Products Feedback & evaluation Learning culture

5. Share

Gli standards sono stati sviluppati con lo scopo di facilitare i progetti/programmi di conservazione nel:

• descrivere prospettive (vision) a lungo termine

• stabilire presupposti fondamentali (key assumptions),

• sviluppare attività efficaci,

• valutare e misurare i risultati,

• e quindi, se necessario, adattare e diffondere/condividere,

• imparare dall’esperienza, applicando il paradigma della Gestione

Adattativa

Al fine di realizzare progetti/programmi più efficaci ed efficientiThese standards are rooted in a long history of planning and management in WWF, across other conservation organizations, and in other

disciplines.

•They are not meant to be a rigid set of standards that every project must blindly follow, but rather a set of best practices that conservationists can use.

The Adaptive Management “Loop”

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Target(OBIETTIVI)

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GESTIONE ADATTATIVA:

un processo di acquisizione sistematica e successiva applicazione di informazioni affidabili al fine di migliorare l’efficacia della gestione nel tempo.

Initial team Scope & vision Features/targets Context & stakeholders

1. Define

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Project/ProgrammeCycle

Step 1 - Define

1.1 Program Team - Roles and responsibilities 1.2 Scope & Vision - Maps - Vision Statement

1.3 Biodiversity Targets - Species - Habitats - Ecological Processes

1.4 Context & Stakeholders - Stakeholder Analysis - Conceptual Model - Threats Ranking

STEP 1

Initial team Scope & vision Features/targets Context & stakeholders

1. Define

Action plan Monitoring plan Operational plan

2. Design

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Project/ProgrammeCycle

Step 2 - Design

2.1 Action Plan - Strategies (results chains) - Goals (for targets) - Objectives (for threats) - Activities

2.2 Monitoring Plan - Activity Metrics - Financial Metrics - Status Indicators

2.3 Operational Plan - Capacity Assessment - Financial Plan - Risk Assessment - Exit Strategy

STEP 2

Define

1.1 Definizione del gruppo di lavoro e piano preliminare

1.2 Definizione dell’ambito geografico (scope) d’intervento della

prospettiva a lungo termine (vision)

1.3 Definizione dei “bersagli” di conservazione (targets)

1.4 Analisi del contesto e dei portatori d’interesse (stakeholders)

Step 1

Define Targets

Target di biodiversità : gli ecosistemi, le specie, i processi ecologici sui quali un progetto ha deciso di concentrarsi.

I target di biodiversità dovrebbero essere in grado di rappresentare tutta la biodiversità alla scala del sito .

Step 1

Ecosystems

Assemblages of communities that occur together on the landscape; linked by environmental processes

Terrestrial, freshwater, marine

Species

Endemic, area-sensitive, globally or regionally significant

Imperiled, endangered, special concern

Groupings of species with similar conservation requirements

Ecological Processes

Processes that create and maintain biodiversity that are threatened

Hydrologic or fire regimes, migration, protection of nursery & recruitment areas

Define TargetsStep 1

“Lump” conservation targets if they meet all of the following tests:

• Co-occur on the landscape• Require similar ecological processes • Have similar viability status• Have similar threats

Therefore will require similar conservation strategies

Examples• Fish & mussel assemblages• Grasslands & grassland nesting birds• Matrix forest & embedded plant community

Lumping or Splitting Targets?

Example: Bering Sea Targets

• Vision: That the Bering Sea has healthy, abundant, and diverse populations of invertebrates, fish, birds, marine mammals, and people.

• Orca• Gray whale• Beluga whale• Rockfish• Crab• Coral & sponge gardens• Juvenile fish & shellfish• Herring• Pribilof rock sandpiper• Pribilof shrew• Pribilof arctic fox• Aleutian whitlow grass• Black-footed brown lemming• Passerines

Dozens of Biodiversity Targets:

• Kittiwakes• Murres• Cormorants• Northern fur seal• Stellar sea lion• Harbor seal• Pacific salmon• Pollock• Spectacled eider• Walrus• Polar bear• Sea otter• Kelp forests

Example: Bering Sea Targets

• Kittiwakes• Murres• Cormorants

• Northern fur seal• Stellar sea lion• Harbor seal

• Pacific salmon• Pollock

• Spectacled eider• Walrus• Polar bear

• Sea otter• Kelp forests

• Orca• Gray whale• Beluga whale

• Rockfish• Crab• Coral & sponge gardens

• Juvenile fish & shellfish• Herring• Pribilof rock sandpiper

• Pribilof shrew• Pribilof arctic fox• Aleutian whitlow grass• Black-footed brown lemming• Passerines

9 Strategic Targets to Facilitate Planning

• 1. Seabirds

• 2. Pinnipeds

• 3. Pelagic Fish

• 4. Sea Ice• ecosystem

• 5. Sea otter

•6. Whales

•7. Bottom Dwelling• Fish & Crab

•8. Coastal Lagoons• & Freshwater• Wetlands

•9. Maritime• Insular Tundra

Coastal Dunes

Brackish Marsh

Freshwater Marsh

Riverine System

Matrix Forest

Tiger Beetle

Connecticut

River Tidelands

ProjectFunctional Site (Sub-Watershed)

Coastal Dune Complex

Freshwater Marsh

Tiger Beetle

Riverine Syste

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Brackish Marsh

Functional Site (Proximate Buffer)

Functional Site (River Beach)

Functional Site (Barrier Beach/Dunes)

Functional Landscape (Targets at Multiple Scales)

Matrix Forest

Watershed

The project area is defined by the targets … not vice versa

Il processo di definizione diTarget di Conservazione per la Regione Toscana

processo: 1. individuazione di un set (6-8) di target di

conservazione in grado di rappresentare l’intero panorama della biodiversità regionale.

2. definizione di target “nidificati” sufficienti a rappresentare la complessità della biodiversità a scala regionale

3. individuazione di attributi ecologici (indicatori) adeguati grazie alla misura dei quali sia possibile migliorare nel tempo l’efficiacia delle azioni di conservazione