Useful Links
Landscape Planning in Ewaso-Nyiro, Kenya
In early 2006, the Living Landscapes Program facilitated a landscape-scale conservation planning project in the Ewaso-Nyiro ecosystem of central Kenya (primarily across Samburu and Laikipia Districts). Using systematic, spatially explicit tools, we helped conservation practitioners and local stakeholders to identify areas in need of conservation attention and to prioritize those areas for future conservation investment. An executive summary and detailed description of the project and the final 5-day workshop can be downloaded here.
Other Links
The WCS Living Landscapes Program is designed to develop and test practical site-based approaches to conserving wildlife, and sets priorities for conservation by looking through the eyes of wildlife.
In contrast, the links below are to programs focused primarily on developing regional or global priority-setting strategies that are vital for ensuring that a representative sample of the world’s plants, animals and landscapes receive conservation attention. Though these strategies help us to target scarce resources at the most globally important biological areas, they tell is us little about how to manage each priority site and do not define how large or small the site should be to ensure that ecologically viable populations of plants and animals resident within the site persist.
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