Conservation planning
RZSS has a long history of involvement in species conservation planning, from feeding into action plans, to running entire workshops involving participants from all over the world, working together to identify the most practical ways of saving species.
Strategic planning for species is one of the three key elements in the assessment-planning-action cycle promoted by the IUCN Species Survival Commission. Bringing together diverse stakeholders to plan out effective, evidence-based management recommendations is key to efficiently allocating limited conservation resources.
RZSS was one of the lead organisations on the Dama Gazelle (Nanger dama) Conservation Strategy 2019-2028 and the Northern rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes moseleyi) action plan 2017-2027. Our staff were also part of the team that produced the first every conservation strategy for the Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manual) and we were on the organising team for developing Scotland’s Beaver Strategy 2022-2045.
More recently we have developed our in-house conservation planning skills via the IUCN’s Conservation Planning Specialist Group (CPSG) development pathway. As a result, one of our team was the lead facilitator on Britain’s National Hedgehog Conservation Strategy and we also applied the CPSG planning approach to a workshop for the IUCN SSC Canid Specialist Group to create a framework for revising the taxonomy of canids globally.
It is only through working collaboratively with stakeholders from a wide variety of backgrounds and opinions that we can achieve positive outcomes for threatened species. Conservation planning opens the door to this work.
Interested in working with us on conservation planning?
