Strategic Habitat Conservation
Guiding Principles of SHC
- Habitat conservation is simply a means to attain our true goal - the
conservation of populations and ecological functions that sustain them.
- Defining measurable population objectives is a key component of SHC,
at any scale.
- Biological Planning must use the best scientific information available,
both as a body of knowledge and a method of learning. Our understanding
of ecological conditions is never perfect. An essential element of SHC
is managing uncertainty through an iterative cycle of planning, doing,
and evaluating.
- Management actions, decisions, and recommendations must be defensible
and explicit about the nature and magnitude of potential errors.
- Conservation strategies consist of dynamic suites of objectives, tactics
and tools that change as new information enters the SHC cycle.
- Partnerships are essential, both for management and for developing
conservation strategies.
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