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Open Standards For The Practice Of Conservation (10a) Flashcards

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Open?

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= conservation standards are open-source & are to be shared, used & adapted as teams see fit for their context.

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Standards?

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= describe ideal practices for doing good conservation work (mutually defined lexicon/terminology).

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Practice?

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= focuses on how we do conservation.

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Conservation?

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= where the Conservation Standards have evolved over time to consider the connections between nature & humans.

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Steps to conservation planning via Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation? (5)

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  • Conceptualize.
  • Plan actions & monitoring.
  • Implement actions & monitoring.
  • Analyze, use & adapt.
  • Capture & share learning.
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Explain OSCP 1?

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● Conceptualize

  • Define planning purpose & project team.
  • Define scope, vision, targets.
  • Identify critical threats.
  • Analyze the conservation situation.
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OSCP 2?

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● Plan actions & monitoring

  • Develop goals, strategies, assumptions & objectives.
  • Develop monitoring plan.
  • Develop operational plan.
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OSCP 3?

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● Implement actions & monitoring

  • Develop work plan & timeline.
  • Develop & refine budget.
  • Implement plans.
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OSCP 4?

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● Analyze, use, adapt

  • Prepare data for analysis.
  • Analyze results.
  • Adapt strategic plan.
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OSCP 5?

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● Capture & share learning

  • Document learning.
  • Share learning.
  • Create learning environment.
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Project scope?

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Project scope types? (2)

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  • Geographic scope.

* Thematic scope.

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Geographic scope?

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= projects focused on biodiversity of a specific place.

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Thematic scope?

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= involves a target, threat or strategy that has a loose geographic boundary.

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Vision statement?

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= description of the desired state that a project is working to achieve.

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Vision statement criteria? (3)

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  • Relatively general.
  • Visionary.
  • Brief.
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Elaborate each vision statement criteria?

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● Relatively general
= broadly defined to encompass all project activities.

● Visionary
= inspirational in outlining the desired change in the state of the targets that the project is working towards.

● Brief
= simple & succinct/short so that all project participants can remember it.

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Conservation target?

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= the ecosystems & species that a project has chosen to concentrate on.

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Viability of a conservation target?

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= the measure to which the target is resistant (to change in its structure & composition during external stresses) & resilient.

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Resilience relating to viability of a conservation target?

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= ability to recover upon experiencing occasional severe stress.

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What questions do viability assessments help teams answer? (4)

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  • What key characteristics define a healthy target?
  • How do we physically measure those characteristics (indicators)?
  • How is our target doing now?
  • What do we want to achieve (ultimate, measurable goals)?
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Viability Assessment steps? (5)

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  • Define KEAs of your target.
  • Identify indicator(s) for each KEA.
  • Describe what would constitute “good” status.
  • Define the current status & desired future status for your target.
  • Complete the rating scale for each indicator, using categories of Very Good, Good, Fair, or Poor.
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Categories of step 1 of viability Assessment? (3)

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  • Size.
  • Condition.
  • Landscape context.
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Elaborate each category of step 1?

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● Size

  • geographic extent (ecosystem/habitat).
  • abundance/demographics of population or community.

● Condition

  • composition.
  • structure.
  • biotic interactions.

● Landscape context

  • landscape-scale ecological processes.
  • connectivity.
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Very good?

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= ecologically desirable status with little intervention.

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Good?

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= indicator within acceptable range of variation with some intervention.

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Fair?

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= outside acceptable range of variation with necessary human intervention.

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Poor?

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= restoration increasingly difficult with possible result in extirpation/extinction.

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KEA =?

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Key Ecological Attributes.

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KEA?

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= characteristics that if degraded would jeopardize the target’s ability to persist for 100+ years.

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KEA basically?

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=

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Tips for selecting KEAs? (3)

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  • Pick factors that are critical for long-term viability.
  • Pick characters that are likely to be affected by human activities.
  • Look for a few really key ecological attributes vs many desirable/descriptive characteristics.
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Tips for selecting Indicators? (3)

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Look for indicators that:

  • Strongly relate to the status of KEA.
  • Efficient & affordable to measure.
  • Can reasonably define what constitutes “Good”.
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Desirable indicators? (2)

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  • Provide an early warning to serious stresses.

* Assess 2 or more KEA.

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Direct threats?

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= human-induced actions that will directly degrade 1 or more conservation targets.

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Egs of direct threats? (3)

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  • Unsustainable logging.
  • Residential development.
  • Operation of dams.
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Stress?

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= biophysical impact of that action on the target (impaired KEA of a target).

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Egs of Stresses? (2)

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  • Habitat fragmentation.

* High mortality.

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Direct threats vs Stressors in Dam construction eg?

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● Direct threats (targets affected)

  • migratory fish.
  • rivers & streams.

● Stressors

  • altered stream flows.
  • reduced reproductive success of fish.
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Direct threat scoring criteria? (3)

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  • Scope/Extent.
  • Severity.
  • Irreversibility.
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Scope/Extent?

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= the proportion of the target expected to be affected by the threat within 10 years.

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Severity?

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= level of damage to the target expected if current trends continue.

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Irreversibility?

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= degree to which the target can be restored if the threat is removed.

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Indirect threat/Contributing factors?

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= an economic, cultural, societal or institutional factor which allows/encourages direct threats to occur.

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Egs of indirect threats? (3)

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  • Need for income.
  • Lack of knowledge.
  • Low capacity.
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Situation analysis?

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= process that will help your project team create a common understanding of your project’s context together–including the biological, environment and the social, economic, political, and and institutional systems that affect the conservation targets you want to conserve.

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Situation analysis categories? (3)

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  • In-depth.
  • Formal assessment.
  • Informal assessment description.
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Conceptual Model? (2)

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= diagram that shows what is happening within a project.

= tool for documenting a situation analysis.

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What does a conceptual model? (2)

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  • Shows major forces (threats & opportunities) that are influencing biodiversity.
  • Lays out the causal relationships among those forces.
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Attributes of a good conceptual model? (6)

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  • Presents a picture of your situation.
  • Shows assumed relationships between factors.
  • Shows major direct and indirect threats & opportunities.
  • Presents only relevant factors.
  • Based on sound data & information.
  • Results from a team effort.
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Strategy?

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= a group of actions with a common focus that work together to reduce threats, capitalised on opportunities and restore natural systems.

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What does a strategy do? (2)

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  • Achieves specific objectives & goals.

* Influences key intervention points in your conceptual model.

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Good strategy criteria? (4)

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  • Linked to critical factors.
  • Focused.
  • Feasible.
  • Appropriate.
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Linked to critical factors?

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= directly affects 1 or more critical factors in your conceptual model.

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Focused?

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= outlines specific courses of action that need to be carried out.

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Feasible?

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= accomplishable in light of the project’s resources & constraints.

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Appropriate?

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= acceptable to & fitting within the project-specific cultural, social & biological norms.

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Steps to Brainstorming & Prioritizing strategies? (6)

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  • Select a direct threat and target(s) & review contributing factors.
  • Select key intervention points.
  • Brainstorm potential strategies to influence key intervention points.
  • Rate strategies.
  • Select final strategies.
  • Apply criteria for strategies.
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Questions to ask when reviewing the factors contributing to this threat? (4)

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  • What is causing this threat to happen?What social, economic, cultural, political and institutional factors are contributing to the threat?
  • Who is involved, directly or indirectly?
  • Why are they doing it?
  • Are there opportunities, factors that could contribute to reducing the threat?
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Advices for Strategy Brainstorming? (3)

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  • Consider scale at which you’re working & whether your strategies should be broader or specific.
  • Don’t limit yourself to typical strategies.
  • Consider what your team will do vs what other organizations/partners will do.
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Potential impact?

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= degree to which the strategy (if implemented) will lead to desired changes in the situation at your project site.

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Potential impact categories? (4)

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  • Very high.
  • High.
  • Medium.
  • Low.
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Elaborate each potential impact category?

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● Very high
= very likely to mitigate threat/restore target.

● High
= likely to mitigate threat/restore target.

● Medium
= possibly help mitigate threat/restore target.

● Low
= probably not mitigate threat/restore target.

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Feasibility regarding rating strategies?

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= degree to which your project team could implement the strategy within likely time, financial, staffing, ethical & other constraints.

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Explain feasibility categories? (4)

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● Very high
= ethically, technically & financially feasible.

● High
= ethically & technically feasible but needs additional financial resources.

● Medium
= ethically feasible but technically or financially difficult without additional resources.

● Low
= not ethically, technically or financially feasible.

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Results chain?

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= tool for documenting a team’s “theory of change”, describing how a strategy will lead to conservation success.

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What do results Chain do? (2)

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  • Defines how a project teams thinks a strategy will contribute to reducing a threat/restoring a target.
  • Focuses on achievement of results.
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What is a results Chain composed of?

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Assumptions that can be tested.

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Basic components of a results chain? (4)

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Strategy 
|
Result (indirect threat addressed)
|
Result (direct threat addressed)
|
Impact on target (viability maintained)
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Results oriented?

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= boxes contain desired results & not activities.

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Connected in a “causal” manner?

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= there are clear connections of “if…then” between each pair of successive boxes.

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Demonstrates change?

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= each box describes how you hope the relevant factor will change.

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Relatively complete?

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= there are sufficient boxes to construct logical connections but not so many that the chain becomes overly complex.

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Simple?

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= there is only one result per box.

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Describe the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation? (4)

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  • It is open.
  • It has standards.
  • It is practice.
  • It is conservation.
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Strategy types? (2)

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  • Threar abatement strategy.

* Restoration strategy.

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What do restoration strategies do?

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Enhance viability of a conservation target.

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