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Appendix K Conservation Action Planning <br />The Nat<ire Conservancy's mission is to conserve a set of daces that will conserve biodiversity <br />globally. TNC does this by defining and developing action plans for conservation areas. <br />Conservation areas are geographically defined regions: <br />• where conservation action can be effectively taken and <br />• that are, or have the potential to be, ecologically functional systems (e.g., relatively intact <br />hydrologic cycles or fire regimes) supporting species and biological systems <br />representative of the ecoregion (large areas defined by their distinct climate, geology and <br />native species) in which they lie. <br />Worlang with partners, The Nature Conservancy uses an adaptive management process to <br />develop and implement Conservation Action Plans. Through collaboration and ascience-based <br />approach, Conservation Action Plans: <br />• select key features of biodiversity (i.e., conservation targets) within each <br />conservation area and assess conservation strategies for those key features; <br />• identify the conditions or activities that are threateiung or may threaten the <br />species and systems of concern; <br />• develop strategies with partners for reducing threats in the conservation areas and <br />restoring viability and integrity to degraded species and systems of concern; and <br />• develop the measures of success that will be used to (1) understand if the <br />conservation strategies are driving toward effective conservation and (2) to <br />revise, improve, and share information on the efficacy of the different strategies. <br />The Conservation Action Plans that result from this process are considered to be adaptable over <br />time and use the measures of progress and success to stimulate continued thinking and changing <br />approaches to conservation. <br />The Nature Conservancy formally calls the adaptive management program behind the <br />Conservation Action Plans the "Five-S Framework," which is shorthand for Systems, Stresses, <br />Sources, Strategies, and (measures of) Success. The 5-S Framework is widely used both within <br />and outside The Nature Conservancy to design conservation strategies and develop measures of <br />both strategy effectiveness and conservation status. The table below gives examples for each of <br />these S's. <br />65 <br />