Identifying species and Standardised data New, simple-to-apply Priority-setting for community bottlenecks required for population viability management and to management analysis tools policy interventions and tipping points inform better system-wide intervention and increases success of Guidelines for management monitoring, chosen from maintaining or population combined analysis of restoring habitats, management based on exemplar studies populations and meta-analysis of ecosystems to Improved knowledge of exemplar studies in sustainable levels factors leading to tipping main taxon groups points across various – A system to identify scales of time and space, priorities for different environments management and and ecosystems policy intervention Collection of agreed Developing species Mitigation strategies Overlapping climate change and species tolerance range tolerance range models take account of tolerance models and monitoring data for linked to climate tolerance change maps to identify susceptible indicator change predictions model predictions for effects and ongoing species at-risk species conservation needs for Improved knowledge of proactive management of climate change, disease species and populations and contaminant interactions on susceptible indicator species Scaling up vertebrate, Understanding the Understanding how A range of weed, pest and disease behaviour and management actions and socially to achieve detectability of at interact with one accepted tools and control eradication, using existing low densities to prevent another for synergy or options is available for and new technologies in incursions and achieve adverse consequences, policy to ways that are socially and eradication for example, control of consider for weed, culturally acceptable and one species might have pest and disease Identifying technologies cost-effective positive or negative management that could potentially be unintended used, including Biodiversity recovery consequences for consideration of social and freedom from others licence to operate disease threats is Developing achieved at landscape Information on integrated threat scale acceptability of new management that technologies for pest avoids unexpected control to inform policy consequences choices Innovative institutional Catalogue of new Evaluate existing and Incentives to support approaches evaluated new approaches and these new arrangements for conservation, against a range of apply lessons to institutional social, cultural and of policy arrangements that economic value, including performance criteria encourage protection Examine the ‘leverage’ within production and and enhancement of potential of treasured urban landscapes biodiversity on private species to the land while respecting communities that private property rights support them
Identifying species and community bottlenecks and tipping points to inform better system-wide management Standardised data required for management intervention and monitoring, chosen from combined analysis of exemplar studies Improved knowledge of factors leading to tipping points – across various scales of time and space, different environments and ecosystems New, simple-to-apply population viability analysis tools Guidelines for population management based on meta-analysis of exemplar studies in main taxon groups A system to identify priorities for management and policy intervention Priority-setting for management and policy interventions increases success of maintaining or restoring habitats, populations and ecosystems to sustainable levels Overlapping climate change and species tolerance models and maps to identify effects and ongoing conservation needs for proactive management of species and populations Collection of agreed tolerance range monitoring data for susceptible indicator species Improved knowledge of climate change, disease and contaminant interactions on susceptible indicator species Developing species tolerance range models linked to climate change predictions Mitigation strategies take account of tolerance change model predictions for at-risk species Scaling up vertebrate, weed, pest and disease control to achieve eradication, using existing and new technologies in ways that are socially and culturally acceptable and cost-effective Understanding the behaviour and detectability of at low densities to prevent incursions and achieve eradication Identifying technologies that could potentially be used, including consideration of social licence to operate Information on acceptability of new technologies for pest control to inform policy choices Understanding how management actions interact with one another for synergy or adverse consequences, for example, control of one species might have positive or negative unintended consequences for others Developing integrated threat management that avoids unexpected consequences A range of and socially accepted tools and options is available for policy to consider for weed, pest and disease management Biodiversity recovery and freedom from disease threats is achieved at landscape scale Innovative institutional arrangements for conservation, social, cultural and economic value, including within production and urban landscapes Catalogue of new approaches evaluated against a range of performance criteria Evaluate existing and new approaches and apply lessons to of policy Examine the ‘leverage’ potential of treasured species to the communities that support them Incentives to support these new institutional arrangements that encourage protection and enhancement of biodiversity on private land while respecting private property rights
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