Connectivity Conservation Management

by Worboys, Graeme L.; Francis, Wendy L.; Lockwood, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781844076048
• ISBN10: 1844076040
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In an era of climate change, deforestation and massive habitat loss, we can no longer rely on parks and protected areas as isolated islands of wilderness to conserve and protect vital biodiversity. Increasing connections are being considered and made between protected areas, and connectivity thinking has started to expand to the regional and even the continental scale to match the challenges of conserving biodiversity in the face of global environmental change. This groundbreaking book is the first guide to conservation management at regional and continental scales. Written by leading conservation and protected area management specialists under the auspices of the World Commission on Protected Areas of IUCN, the World Conservation Union, this guide brings together a decade and a half of practice and covers all aspects of connectivity planning and management. The book begins by addressing the need for connectivity conservation as a strategic imperative in the face of climate change, explains what connectivity conservation is and explores the key management challenges and issues including policy change and formation and capacity building. Successive chapters cover technical aspects including the natural setting, landscape, habitat, ecological and evolutionary process connectivity and human-oriented factors including values and aspirations, life support, livelihoods and sustainable resource use. The authors then cover the full swathe of the management context and dynamic including national reserve settings, connectivity management tools and stewardship needs. Further chapters look at practice and case studies from around the world including in-depth examination of the Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) project which spans much of the Continental Divide of North America and takes in dozens of protected areas and vast areas of private and public land across national, state and provincial boundaries. Further international examples are drawn form the Udvardy Biogeographical Realms of Africotropical, Australian, Indomalayan, Nearctic, Neotropical Oceanian and Palaearctic. Final chapters synthesize the lessons learned from the past decade and a half of theory and practice for management and the authors look at the key challenges of the future, particularly the threat of climate change and the variable capacity of countries and regions to respond. This handbook is a must have for all professionals in protected area management, conservation, land management and resource management from the field through senior management and policy. It is also an ideal reference for students and academics in geography, protected area management and form across the environmental and natural sciences.

Author Biography

Graeme L. Worboys is Vice Chair of Mountains Biome and Connectivity Conservation, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, Canberra, Australia. Wendy L. Francis is Director, Conservation Science and Action, Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, Banff, Canada. Michael Lockwood is Senior Lecturer in Environment and Planning at the University of Tasmania, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes	p. xii
Acknowledgements	p. xvii
Preface	p. xxiii
Foreword	p. xxv
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xxvii
Glossary	p. xxix
Setting the Context	p. 1
The Connectivity Conservation Imperative	p. 3
About connectivity conservation	p. 3
Planning context	p. 8
A global initiative	p. 8
Potential connectivity conservation areas	p. 10
Forecast futures	p. 11
Four scenarios	p. 12
An imperative for connectivity conservation	p. 17
Origins, purpose and structure of this book	p. 18
Connectivity Science	p. 22
Island biogeography, metapopulation theory and landscape ecology	p. 26
Scientific debate over the value of corridors	p. 28
Connectivity conservation and climate change	p. 31
Conclusion	p. 33
Scoping the Territory: Considerations for Connectivity Conservation Managers	p. 34
Natural considerations	p. 34
Institutional considerations	p. 37
Financial considerations	p. 43
Social and individual considerations	p. 45
Conclusion	p. 51
Applied Connectivity Conservation Management: Case Material	p. 53
Africotropical Connectivity Conservation Initiatives	p. 55
Joining the dots; Stewardship for connectivity conservation in the Cederberg Mountains, Cape Floristic Region, South Africa	p. 55
Conserving connectivity in the Greater Virunga Landscape	p. 69
Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation and Development Programme: A South African perspective	p. 77
Australian Connectivity Initiatives	p. 86
Australian Alps national parks: Enhancing connectivity through cooperation across borders	p. 87
Australian Alps to Atherton connectivity conservation	p. 96
Ecological restoration in Gondwana link (south-western Australia): A convergence of thought and action	p. 105
Indomalayan Connectivity Initiatives	p. 116
Creating biological corridors for conservation and development: A case study from Bhutan	p. 117
Developing conservation corridors and regional cooperation in the transboundary Sacred Himalayan Landscape	p. 124
Establishing tropical rainforest connectivity in northern Sumatra: Challenges and opportunities	p. 133
Nearctic Connectivity Initiatives	p. 140
Conservation network in the southern Appalachian mountains	p. 140
Greater northern Appalachian bioregion	p. 152
Yellowstone to Yukon connectivity conservation initiative	p. 161
Neotropical Connectivity Initiatives	p. 182
Mesoamerican biological corridor	p. 183
Ecosystem approach applied to international connectivity: The Andean	p. 191
Integrating protected areas and landscapes: Lessons from the Vilcabamba-Amboro conservation corridor (Bolivia-Peru)	p. 199
Serra do Espinhaço Biosphere Reserve	p. 211
Articulating local visions to build macro-corridors: The Munchique-Pinche example	p. 221
Llanganates-Sangay ecological corridor, Ecuador: Good conservation practice at a local scale	p. 226
Implementation of an interconnected system of protected areas in the Venezuelan Andes	p. 234
Palaearctic Connectivity Initiatives	p. 245
Altai Mountain Knot: Between conservation and development	p. 246
Overview of connectivity projects in the European Alps and adjacent mountains	p. 250
Tri-national Mont-Blanc Massif: A crucial link in European alpine connectivity	p. 258
Ecological network of protected areas in the European Alps	p. 264
Cantabrian Mountains-Pyrénées-Massif Central-Western Alps Great Mountain corridor	p. 269
The Appenines (European Alps to the Mediterranean)	p. 279
Themes and Lessons from Global Experience in Connectivity Conservation	p. 283
Lessons from the Papallacta workshop	p. 283
From practice to conceptual framework	p. 292
Conclusion	p. 298
Synthesis	p. 299
Connectivity Conservation Management Framework and Key Tasks	p. 301
Components of a management framework	p. 301
The management framework	p. 307
Connectivity conservation management tasks	p. 309
Challenges and Opportunities for Connectivity Conservation	p. 342
References	p. 347
Index	p. 373
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