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Strategic Habitat Conservation

Guiding Principles of SHC

1. Habitat conservation is simply a means to attain our true goal - the conservation of populations and ecological functions that sustain them.
   


2. Defining measurable population objectives is a key component of SHC, at any scale.
   


3. 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.
   


4. Management actions, decisions, and recommendations must be defensible and explicit about the nature and magnitude of potential errors.
   


5. Conservation strategies consist of dynamic suites of objectives, tactics and tools that change as new information enters the SHC cycle.
   


6. Partnerships are essential, both for management and for developing conservation strategies.