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.
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:
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:
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: