来源类型 | Issue Brief
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规范类型 | 简报
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ISBN | ISBN: 978-1-56973-783-5
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| Insights from the Field: Forests for Species and Habitat |
| Todd Gartner; C. Josh Donlan (Advanced Conservation Strategies)
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发表日期 | 2012-02
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出版年 | 2012
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语种 | 英语
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概述 |
Executive Summary
- Market-based mechanisms focused on candidate species conservation,
also known as pre-compliance conservation, can provide
preemptive and cost-effective interventions prior to a species
becoming listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
- To advance candidate conservation incentive programs, the World
Resources Institute (WRI) is working with its partners to build
demand, supply, and transactional infrastructure through a pilot
initiative in the nonfederally listed range of the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) in the southern forests of the United States.
- This innovative approach strives to create a scalable, voluntary,
and science-based marketplace where conservation credits can be
bought and sold prior to the enactment of a regulatory requirement,
resulting in additional acres of southeastern forests being
managed for habitat and species conservation.
- Through this pilot initiative, landowners with southern pine forests
capable of supporting healthy populations of the imperiled gopher
tortoise can receive payments to conserve and manage their forests.
These payments and stewardship activities are designed to offset
habitat disturbance elsewhere and may help preclude the species
from becoming listed as threatened or endangered under the ESA.
- A candidate conservation marketplace may allow federal and
private project developers to manage their environmental risk by
investing in conservation on private lands in return for regulatory
certainty from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). This
process can help these stakeholders avoid the potential for costly
project development delays and litigation since it front-loads
much of the ESA review process and gives entities greater regulatory
certainty.
- Interest in candidate conservation incentive programs is rapidly
growing in the private, public, and nongovernmental organization
sectors as changes in land use across the country spark new challenges
in balancing ecosystem management with residential and
commercial development, national security, energy infrastructure,
and climate change.
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摘要 | This issue brief reports on the mechanics of and lessons learned from a conservation incentive program focused on the gopher tortoise. Its aim is to inform the successful design and implementation of other candidate programs emerging throughout the southern forests and greater United States.
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主题 | Forests
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标签 | biodiversity
; deforestation
; ecosystem services
; forests
; natural resources
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区域 | United States
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URL | https://www.wri.org/publication/insights-field-forests-species-and-habitat
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来源智库 | World Resources Institute (United States)
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资源类型 | 智库出版物
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/27764
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推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 |
Todd Gartner,C. Josh Donlan . Insights from the Field: Forests for Species and Habitat. 2012.
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