Transcript Take existing bibliography of island habitat recovery techniques

HABITAT RECOVERY
TECHNIQUES
OBJECTIVES:
1. TO ESTABLISH GUIDELINES
2. TO LIST DATA SOURCES
HABITAT RECOVERY
TECHNIQUES: clarification
TWO TYPES OF HABITAT RECOVERY TECHNIQUES:
A. PREVENTIVE, e.g. disease and plague prevention
B. INTERVENTIONAL,e.g. supplementary planting
n.b. ecosystem recovery should be included
STANDARDS AND CLASSIFICATION:
Use existing standards (i.e. EU ecosystem and habitat
typology)
HABITAT RECOVERY
TECHNIQUES: major problems
• Lack of management manuals
• Scatteredness of information on management techniques
• Some available information highly specific (i.e. island
restoration)
Recommendation 1:
Make an inventory or list of references of habitat
management techniques
Recommendation 1a:
Take existing bibliography of island habitat recovery
techniques by Shelagh Kell as starting point
HABITAT RECOVERY TECHNIQUES:
general or (species) specific?
General techniques: translocations, alien eradication, some
wetland techniques are general
Specific techniques: ?
Comments on Annex 8 list of techniques
• is not exhaustive: soil removal, wild harvesting,
environmental pollution clean-up, traditional
management, introduction of pollinators, grazers,
• wording: ‘elimination’ of invasive species should be
‘control’
• should all allien/invasive species be controlled
HABITAT RECOVERY TECHNIQUES
more data sources:
• EUROSITE coordinates Natura 2000, has action plans
and manuals www.eurosite.org
• EUROPARC (European Federation of natural parks (only
large parks)
• European Centre for Nature Conservation
• IUCN invasive species group
• Ecological restoration group (USA)
• Dr. Emilio Laguna will provide a list of key contact persons
HABITAT RECOVERY TECHNIQUES:
feasibility of guidelines
Species recovery: more specific
Habitat recovery more open-ended, each habitat specific
techniques – no protocol can be produced
Position 1: no guidelines by PGR Forum. Is too much a
specialists task; produce a list of references instead
Position 2: the references should be hierarchical; is
part of the general methodology –
Outcome:
Produce metaguidelines: guidelines to direct to more
specific guidelines