Conservation Assessment and Management Plan (CAMP) Process Reference Manual 1996 Edited by Susie Ellis and Ulysses S. Seal IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group A contribution of the IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group. Conservation Assessment and Management Plan (CAMP) Process Reference Manual. 1996. Susie Ellis & Ulysses S. Seal (eds.). IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group: Apple Valley, MN. Additional copies of this publication can be ordered through the IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, 12101 Johnny Cake Ridge Road, Apple Valley, MN 55124 USA. The CBSG lnstitutional Conservation Council: These generous contributors make possible the work of the Conservation Breeding Specialist Group Conservators ($10,000 and above) North Carolina Zoological Park Curators ($250-$499) Oklahoma City Zoo EmporiaZoo Australasian Species Management Program Paignton Zool. & Botanical Gardens Orana Park Wildlife Trust California Energy Co., Inc. 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Society ofWales NOAHS Center Zoologischer Garten Frankfurt Conservation Assessrnent and Managernent Plan (CAMP) Process Reference Manual Table of Contents CONSERVA TION ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT PLAN (CAMP) PROCESS: INTRODUCTION SECTION 1 Conservation Assessment and Management Plans (CAMPs) 1 The New IUCN Red List Categories 2 The CAMP Process 2 The Review Process for CAMPs 3 THE CAMP PROCESS SECTION 2 Ground Rules 6 Working Group Tasks: the CAMP Spreadsheet and Taxon Data Sheets 7 CAMP Taxon Data Sheet Categories 8 Assigning New IUCN Red List Categories 15 Figure l. The Process for D.eriving IUCN Red List Categories 17 Table l. Assigning Threatened IU CN Red List Categories 18 Appendix I. Sample Mammalian Taxon Data Sheet 19 Appendix II. Sample Avian Taxon Data Sheet 22 Appendix III. Sample Plant Taxon Data Sheet 24 Appendix IV. Sample Vertebrate CAMP Spreadsheet 26 Appendix V. Blank Mammalian Taxon Data Sheet 29 Appendix VI. Blank A vian Taxon Data Sheet 30 Appendix VII. Blank Plant Taxon Data Sheet 31 Appendix VIII. Blank Vert .ebrate CAMP Spreadsheet 32 Appendix IX. Blank Plant CAMP Spreadsheet 34 INFORMATION FOR CAMP PROCESS ORGANIZERS: CAMP PREPARATION AND DOCUMENTATION NEEDS SECTION 3 CAMP Preparation and Documentation Needs for Process Organizers 37 Dates and Location for the Process 37 Invitations to the CAMP Process 37 Taxonomic Lists 38 Briefmg Book 38 Meeting Agenda 39 Equipment and Meeting Room Needs 39 After the Process 39 Funding 40 Appendix I. Sample CAMP Process Invitation 41 Appendix ll. Sample CAMP Process Agenda 42 IU ~N RED LIST REFERENCE SECTION 4 Conservation Assessment and Management Plan (CAMP) Process Reference Manual Edited by Susie Ellis and Ulysses S. Seal SECTION 1 CONSERV ATION ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT PLAN (CAMP) PROCESS: INTRODUCTION Conservation Assessment and Management Plan (CAMP) Introduction Reduction and fragmentation of wildlife populations and habitats are occurring at a rapid and accelerating rate. The results for an increasing number of taxa are small and isolated populations that are at risk of extinction. For such populations, more intensive management becomes necessary for their survival and recovery. To an ever increasing extent, this intensive management will include, but not be limited to, habitat management and restoration, intensified information gathering, and possibly captive breeding. The problems for wildlife are so enormous that it is vital to apply the limited resources available for intensive management as efficiently and effectively as possible. Conservation Assessment and Management Plans (or CAMPs) are being developed to respond to this need. CONSERVA TION ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT PLANS (CAMPS) CAMPs are intended to provide strategic guidance for application of intensive management and information collection techniques to threatened taxa. CAMPs previde a rational and comprehensive means of assessing priorities for intensive management within the context of the broader conservation needs of threatened taxa. Within the Species Survival Commission (SSC) of IUCN, the primary goal of the Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG) is to contribute to the development of holistic (i.e., integrating in situ and ex situ) and viable conservation strategies and action plans. The CAMP process assembles a bread spectrum of expertise on wild and captive management of the taxa under review. CAMPs are conducted as collaborative ventures of CBSG with the taxon-based Specialist Groups of the IUCN/SSC and BirdLife Intemational, or with regional wildlife agencies or non-govemmental organizations. Generally, representatives of the organized regional captive breeding programs of the zoo/aquarium world also are included. A CAMP process brings together 10-40 experts (e.g., wildlife managers, Specialist Group members, scientists from the acadernic community and/or the prívate sector, land owners, and captive managers) to evaluate the threat status of all taxa in a bread group (e.g., an order or farnily), country, or geographic region to set conservation action and information-gathering priorities. The CAMP process also provides an opportunity to test the applicability of the 1:-lew IUCN Red List Categories. 1 CBSG CAMP Workshop Reference Manual The New IUCN Red List Categories The threatened species categories now used in Red Data Books and Red Lists have been in place, with sorne modification, for almost 30 years (Mace et al., 1994). The Mace-Lande criteria (Mace & Lande, 1991) were one developmental step in an attempt to make those categories more explicit, and were tested extensively in early CAMPs. These criteria subsequently have been revised and formulated into the New IUCN Red List Categories, which also are being tested in the CAMP process. The New IUCN Red List Categories provide a system that facilitates comparisons across widely different taxa, and is based both on population and distribution criteria. These criteria can be applied to any taxonomic unit at or below the species level, with sufficient range a..rnong the different criteria to enable the appropriate listing of taxa from the complete spectrum of taxa, with the exception of micro-organisms (Mace et al., 1994 ). The New IUCN Red List Categories are: