The Conservation Measures Partnership

2 Land/Water Management

Definition: Actions directed at conserving or restoring sites, habitats and the wider environment

Exposition: This class contains all actions involved in directly managing habitats.

2.1 Site/Area Management

Definition: Management of protected areas and other resource lands for conservation

Exposition: The establishment of protected areas goes into the appropriate category in 1. Land/Water Protection—this category covers the actual management of the land or water.

Examples:

  • site design
  • demarcating borders
  • putting up fences
  • training park staff
  • control of poachers

2.2 Invasive/Problematic Species Control

Definition: Controlling and/or preventing invasive and/or other problematic plants, animals, and pathogens

Exposition: This could arguably fit into 2.1 Site/Area Management and others, but it is such a vital action it gets its own category.

Examples:

  • cutting vines off trees
  • preventing ballast water discharge

2.3 Habitat & Natural Process Restoration

Definition: Enhancing degraded or restoring missing habitats and ecosystem functions; dealing with pollution

Exposition: This category involves the restoration of degraded lands and natural processes as opposed to the protection of existing ones.

Examples:

  • creating forest corridors
  • prairie re-creation
  • riparian tree plantings
  • coral reef restoration
  • proscribed burns
  • breaching levees
  • dam removal
  • fish ladders
  • liming acid lakes
  • cleaning up oil spills

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