Threats: Land Use Planning & Monitoring

Draft Tool Matrix

Capacity Building
Western Hemisphere Migratory Species Initiative
Emerging Issues
Wetlands

Priority Needs List and Tools Matrix

VI. Threats
a. Land Use Planning and Monitoring

Technical expertise and information resources for land use planning and monitoring—specifically land with caves or bat roosts.
From: Bat Conservation International, www.batcon.org.
Contact: jkennedy@batcon.org www.batcon.org

BI plays an active role in land use planning and monitoring where these issues coincide with Important Bird Areas.
From: Birdlife International, www.birdlife.org.
Contact: Rob Clay, rob@guyra.org.py.

Evaluation of the resident and migratory populations of Anatidos in Colombia.
Participation in Ducks Unlimited-Latin America and the Caribbean program.
Evaluations for the designation of six new Ramsar sites.
From: Colombia - Direccion de Ecosistemas, Ministerio del Medio Ambiente.
Contact: Maria Creek, mrivera@minambiente.gov.co or jrivera@impsat.net.co, T: 0057 1 3323434 ext 411.

Potential funding for projects on land use planning and monitoring.
From: Convention on Migratory Species, www.wcmc.org.uk/cms.
Contact: Lyle Glowka, lglowka@cms.unep.de.

LSLBO works with the resource extraction industry to monitor impact of land use practices on boreal birds, and plans to expand its role once the Boreal Centre for Bird Conservation is open.
From: Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory, http://www.lslbo.org/.
Contact: Dr. Richard Knapton, rknapton@telus.net, T: (780) 849-7117.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service have experience in land use planning at various geographic scales.
From: Partners in Flight, www.partnersinflight.org.
Contact: Terry Rich, Terry_rich@fws.gov.

Resolution VIII.14 gives guidelines for management planning for Ramsar sites and other wetlands.
From: Ramsar Convention, www.ramsar.org.
Contact: Margarita Astrálaga, astralaga@ramsar.org.

USFS develops conservation plans for national forests and national grasslands for multiple use management, including conservation of biodiversity. This is a public process including community involvement, environmental and landscape analyses and assessments, scientist-manager partnerships, and alternative development, and could be used as a model internationally.
From: United States Forest Service, www.fs.fed.us.
Contact: Chris Iverson, National Forest Systems, T: 202-205-3199.

The book Important Shorebird Staging Sites Meeting WHSRN Criteria in the United States (1996) B. Harrington and E. Perry, Manomet & USFWS, presents important shorebird sites.
The book Estimates of Shorebird Populations in North America (2001) presents information on the population sizes of 53 species of Nearctic shorebirds. It is used for conservation planning and identifying areas of international and regional importance (in partnership with the Canadian Wildlife Service).
The book United States Shorebird Conservation Plan, a collaborative project with partners across the United States, lays out the conservation status of shorebirds, and suggests national and regional shorebird conservation strategies including a plan for implementation. The Plan also provides shorebird planning regions, has a number of appendices with population estimates and population targets, and gives national shorebird prioritization scores.
From: Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, http://www.manomet.org/WHSRN/.
Contact: Heidi Luquer, Luquer@vermontel.net.

Last updated: November 20, 2008