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CCA Strategies for Biodiversity Conservation Contexts Reflections on your Change Projects Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation for Trans- frontier Conservation Areas in southern Africa Day 2, session 2

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Page 1: CCA strategies for biodiversity conservation contexts

CCA Strategies for Biodiversity Conservation Contexts

Reflections on your Change Projects

Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation for Trans-frontier Conservation Areas in southern Africa

Day 2, session 2

Page 2: CCA strategies for biodiversity conservation contexts

General Adaptation Strategies

5 Broad Categories:

1) Land and Water Protection and Management

2) Direct Species Management3) Monitoring and Planning4) Law and Policy5) Community-based

ecosystem adaptation

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CCA Strategies 1. Land and Water Protection and Management

1. Increase extent of protected areas2. Improve representation and replication

within protected area networks3. Improve management and restoration of

existing protected areas to facilitate resilience

4. Design new natural areas and restoration sites to maximise resilience

5. Manage and restore ecosystem function rather than focus on specific components (species or assemblages)

6. Increase landscape permeability to facilitate species movement

How do these relate to your

change projects?

To what extent are these strategies included in your

Park Management Plans

Can you look at including these in

cross-border interactions and TFCA

Park Management Plans in Future?

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CCA Strategies 2: Direct Species Management

1. Focus conservation resources on species that might become extinct

2. Translocate species at risk of extinction

3. Establish captive populations of species that would otherwise go extinct

4. Reduce pressures on species from sources other than climate change

How do these relate to your

change projects?

To what extent are these strategies included in your

Park Management Plans

Can you look at including these in

cross-border interactions and TFCA

Park Management Plans in Future?

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CCA Strategies 3: Monitoring and Planning

1. Conduct Regular Risk and Vulnerability Assessments and Evaluate and Enhance Monitoring Programmes for Wildlife and Ecosystems

2. Incorporate Predicted climate-change impacts into species and land-management plans, programmes and activities

3. Develop dynamic landscape conservation plans

4. Ensure wildlife and biodiversity needs are considered as part of the wider societal adaptation process

How do these relate to your

change projects?

To what extent are these strategies included in your

Park Management Plans

Can you look at including these in

cross-border interactions and TFCA

Park Management Plans in Future?

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CCA Strategies 4: Law and Policy

1. Review and modify existing laws, regulations and policies regarding wildlife and natural resources management to include effects and risks of climate change

2. For TFCA context, look into harmonisation of cross-border laws, policy, management and enforcement practices around common concerns related to climate change

How do these relate to your

change projects?

To what extent are these strategies included in your

Park Management Plans

Can you look at including these in

cross-border interactions and TFCA

Park Management Plans in Future?

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CCA Strategies 5: Community-based ecosystem adaptation

1. Agro-forestry and conservation agriculture

2. Diversification of livelihood options for communities

3. Afforestation programmes4. Rainwater harvesting 5. Sustainable use policies and

programmes

How do these relate to your

change projects?

To what extent are these strategies included in your

Park Management Plans

Can you look at including these in

cross-border interactions and TFCA

Park Management Plans in Future?

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“Managers may still be using many of the same tools, but they will increasingly need to view the ways in which they use these tools through the lens of climate-induced changes to species and ecosystems. Our old, static views of biodiversity will need to yield to new and dynamic understandings of changing ecosystems and changing climates”