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HABITAT RECOVERY TECHNIQUES OBJECTIVES: 1. TO ESTABLISH GUIDELINES 2. TO LIST DATA SOURCES HABITAT RECOVERY TECHNIQUES: clarification TWO TYPES OF HABITAT RECOVERY TECHNIQUES: A. PREVENTIVE, e.g. disease and plague prevention B. INTERVENTIONAL,e.g. supplementary planting n.b. ecosystem recovery should be included STANDARDS AND CLASSIFICATION: Use existing standards (i.e. EU ecosystem and habitat typology) HABITAT RECOVERY TECHNIQUES: major problems • Lack of management manuals • Scatteredness of information on management techniques • Some available information highly specific (i.e. island restoration) Recommendation 1: Make an inventory or list of references of habitat management techniques Recommendation 1a: Take existing bibliography of island habitat recovery techniques by Shelagh Kell as starting point HABITAT RECOVERY TECHNIQUES: general or (species) specific? General techniques: translocations, alien eradication, some wetland techniques are general Specific techniques: ? Comments on Annex 8 list of techniques • is not exhaustive: soil removal, wild harvesting, environmental pollution clean-up, traditional management, introduction of pollinators, grazers, • wording: ‘elimination’ of invasive species should be ‘control’ • should all allien/invasive species be controlled HABITAT RECOVERY TECHNIQUES more data sources: • EUROSITE coordinates Natura 2000, has action plans and manuals www.eurosite.org • EUROPARC (European Federation of natural parks (only large parks) • European Centre for Nature Conservation • IUCN invasive species group • Ecological restoration group (USA) • Dr. Emilio Laguna will provide a list of key contact persons HABITAT RECOVERY TECHNIQUES: feasibility of guidelines Species recovery: more specific Habitat recovery more open-ended, each habitat specific techniques – no protocol can be produced Position 1: no guidelines by PGR Forum. Is too much a specialists task; produce a list of references instead Position 2: the references should be hierarchical; is part of the general methodology – Outcome: Produce metaguidelines: guidelines to direct to more specific guidelines