'Back on Track species prioritisation framework' - Links
Development of 'Back on Track species prioritisation framework' application
'Back on Track species prioritisation framework' is based on the method of Professor Helene Marsh et al. (2007). See the paper Optimizing Allocation of Management Resources for Wildlife, (Conservation Biology 21 (2) 387-399) published online.
Other prioritisation programs
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- The State Wildlife Grants Program, in the United States of America, encourages states to prioritise species of the greatest conservation need for funds. In doing so, some states developed similar prioritisation programs, including:
- North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (2003). Species prioritisation - species review process (PDF)*.
- The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (PDF)*.
- The Partners in Flight species prioritization scheme (PDF)* has prioritised North American bird species for research and conservation management.
- Molloy, J. and Davis, A. (1994). 'Setting conservation priorities for New Zealand's threatened plants and animals.' Department of Conservation, Te Papa Atawhai.
- Department of Environment and Conservation, in Western Australia, uses a scoring system to identify priority species in their Policy Statement No. 50 Setting priorities for the conservation of Western Australia's threatened flora and fauna (PDF)*.
Links to Natural Resource Management bodies
'Back on Track species prioritisation framework', is working with the 14 Natural Resource Management (NRM) regions across Queensland, they are:
- Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM.
- Burnett Mary Regional Group for NRM Inc.
- Cape York Peninsula Development Association.
- Condamine Alliance Inc.
- Desert Channels Queensland Inc.
- Fitzroy Basin Association.
- Mackay Whitsunday NRM Group.
- Northern Gulf Resource Management Group.
- Queensland Murray-Darling Committee Inc.
- South East Queensland Catchments Ltd.
- Southern Gulf Catchments Ltd.
- South West NRM Ltd.
- Terrain NRM Ltd.
- Torres Strait Regional Authority.
The Australian Government web page Natural Resource Management provides information about the new resource management program 'Caring for our Country'.
This program will integrate delivery of the Commonwealth's existing programs (Natural Heritage Trust, National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality, National Landcare Program, Environmental Stewardship Program and Working on Country Indigenous land and environmental program) through a 'one-stop shop'. 'Caring for our Country' represents a coordinated approach to environmental management.
Advocates of species prioritisation include:
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- Professor Hugh Possingham and colleagues (PDF)* recommended that other criteria, apart from threat to extinction, need to be taken into consideration for the allocation of conservation resources.
- Jon Paul RodrÃguez and colleagues developed a priority-setting process for the conservation of threatened birds in Venezuela.
- Regan, H.M., Hierl, L.A., Franklin, J., Deutschman, D.H., Schmalbach, H.L., Winchell, C.S. and Johnson, B.S (2008). 'Species prioritization for monitoring and management in regional multiple species conservation plans'. In Diversity and Distributions 14 (3), 462-471 published online.
- The Noah's Ark Problem is the challenge of preserving the greatest biological diversity under a limited budget constraint. It was introduced by Martin Weitzman in: Weitzman, M.L. 1998. The Noah's Ark Problem. Econometrica 66:1279-1298.
- The Noah's Ark Problem is discussed in The Harvard Magazine.
- Professor Mike Steel and Dr. Charles Semple are working on a Noah's Ark formula to help biologists and governments measure the conservation importance of different species.
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Last updated: 01 September 2008