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Conservation planning provides a comprehensive, systematic and transparent approach for the identification of effective and efficient actions to conserve or restore key ecological resources. Conservation planning is a decision analysis tool that improves making optimal decisions in complex ecological and societal situations and identifies which solutions brings one closest to the objectives. Its systematic approach insures thoroughness, controls for bias, fosters clarity and understanding and establishes priorities. Additionally, conservation planning can identify the land and waters that actions will impact and develop measures for assessing the status of the key ecological resources and the effectiveness of the actions. Conservation planning can be used for any scale of project, from a small parcel of land to whole watersheds, ecological systems or governmental jurisdictions.
Rob Sutter was one of the developers of The Nature Conservancy’s Conservation Action Planning (CAP) process and one of the leading planners in The Nature Conservancy. He is proficient in CAP and Conservation Measures Partnership’s Miradi software and has planning experience in terrestrial, karst, freshwater and marine systems, and with climate change adaptation. He is proficient with ecological models, situation diagrams and results chains. Most recently he has led CAP planning sessions for karst ecosystems of North America (2008), the poaching of wildlife in four East African countries (2008), headwater rivers of the Southeast United States (2007) and coastal and marine projects in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia (2006).
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