cca strategies for biodiversity conservation contexts
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CCA Strategies for Biodiversity Conservation Contexts
Reflections on your Change Projects
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation for Trans-frontier Conservation Areas in southern Africa
Day 2, session 2
General Adaptation Strategies
5 Broad Categories:
1) Land and Water Protection and Management
2) Direct Species Management3) Monitoring and Planning4) Law and Policy5) Community-based
ecosystem adaptation
CCA Strategies 1. Land and Water Protection and Management
1. Increase extent of protected areas2. Improve representation and replication
within protected area networks3. Improve management and restoration of
existing protected areas to facilitate resilience
4. Design new natural areas and restoration sites to maximise resilience
5. Manage and restore ecosystem function rather than focus on specific components (species or assemblages)
6. Increase landscape permeability to facilitate species movement
How do these relate to your
change projects?
To what extent are these strategies included in your
Park Management Plans
Can you look at including these in
cross-border interactions and TFCA
Park Management Plans in Future?
CCA Strategies 2: Direct Species Management
1. Focus conservation resources on species that might become extinct
2. Translocate species at risk of extinction
3. Establish captive populations of species that would otherwise go extinct
4. Reduce pressures on species from sources other than climate change
How do these relate to your
change projects?
To what extent are these strategies included in your
Park Management Plans
Can you look at including these in
cross-border interactions and TFCA
Park Management Plans in Future?
CCA Strategies 3: Monitoring and Planning
1. Conduct Regular Risk and Vulnerability Assessments and Evaluate and Enhance Monitoring Programmes for Wildlife and Ecosystems
2. Incorporate Predicted climate-change impacts into species and land-management plans, programmes and activities
3. Develop dynamic landscape conservation plans
4. Ensure wildlife and biodiversity needs are considered as part of the wider societal adaptation process
How do these relate to your
change projects?
To what extent are these strategies included in your
Park Management Plans
Can you look at including these in
cross-border interactions and TFCA
Park Management Plans in Future?
CCA Strategies 4: Law and Policy
1. Review and modify existing laws, regulations and policies regarding wildlife and natural resources management to include effects and risks of climate change
2. For TFCA context, look into harmonisation of cross-border laws, policy, management and enforcement practices around common concerns related to climate change
How do these relate to your
change projects?
To what extent are these strategies included in your
Park Management Plans
Can you look at including these in
cross-border interactions and TFCA
Park Management Plans in Future?
CCA Strategies 5: Community-based ecosystem adaptation
1. Agro-forestry and conservation agriculture
2. Diversification of livelihood options for communities
3. Afforestation programmes4. Rainwater harvesting 5. Sustainable use policies and
programmes
How do these relate to your
change projects?
To what extent are these strategies included in your
Park Management Plans
Can you look at including these in
cross-border interactions and TFCA
Park Management Plans in Future?
“Managers may still be using many of the same tools, but they will increasingly need to view the ways in which they use these tools through the lens of climate-induced changes to species and ecosystems. Our old, static views of biodiversity will need to yield to new and dynamic understandings of changing ecosystems and changing climates”