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Reaching Conservation Goals

WCS has a long history of helping to plan and manage the protected area systems that are essential to conservation success. Members from WCS and other World Parks participants showcase people, places, and organizations leading the way to conservation success, and review progress made to date. The output of the stream will provide a template of how Aichi Biodiversity Target 11—conserving at least 17% of terrestrial and inland water and 10% of coastal and marine areas—can be achieved.

WCS in Action

The following sessions have been completed.

Friday - November 14, 2014

What	When	Who	Where
Achieving Aichi Target 11: Governance diversity, coverage and conservation (Part 1)	13:30 - 15:00	Michael Painter	Hall 4A2
Innovative Protected Area Management	15:30 - 17:00	David Wilkie	See Room
Achieving Aichi Target 11: Governance diversity, coverage and conservation (Part 2)	15:30 - 17:00	Michael Painter	Hall 4A2

Saturday - November 15, 2014

What	When	Who	Where
The role of law enforcement monitoring in improving management effectiveness of protected areas: lessons learned from global case studies	12:10 - 13:20	Andy Plumptre, Inaoyom Imong (WCS Nigeria), Deo Kujirakwinja (WCS DRC), Emma Stokes	Hall 3A1
Wildlife crime and law enforcement in protected areas (Part 1)	13:30 - 15:00	Session Organizers: Liz Bennett, Sue Lieberman, Noelle Kumpel (ZSL), Katherine Secoy (ZSL) Anak Pattanavibool Presenter	Hall 6
Protected areas and human-wildlife conflict	13:30 - 15:00	P.M. Muthanna	See Room
Innovative financial mechanisms for conservation and protected areas	15:30 - 17:00	Ray Victurine (Chair), Katy Mathias and Rob Tizard	Southee North
Wildlife crime and law enforcement in protected areas (Part 2)	15:30 - 17:00	Panel Chair: Sue Lieberman Presenters: Alexa Montefiore (SMART Partnership), Samuel Kasiki (Kenya Wildlife Service), Zdenka Piskulich (Forever Costa Rica)	Hall 6

Sunday - November 16, 2014

What	When	Who	Where
Elephant Protection Initiative Technical Workshop	09:30 - 12:30	Simon Hedges	Hub 2

Monday - November 17, 2014

What	When	Who	Where
Biodiversity Outcomes 1: Measuring Success and Failure of Protected Areas	08:30 - 10:00	John Robinson and Joe Walston	Hall 3A1
Monitoring Conservation Outcomes Inside and Outside Protected Areas (Part 1)	08:30 - 10:00	Alicia Kuroiwa and Ernesto Escalante (from Peru SERNANP) and Alexa Montefiore	Southee North
Monitoring Conservation Outcomes Inside and Outside Protected Areas (Part 2)	10:30 - 12:00	Alicia Kuroiwa and Ernesto Escalante (from Peru SERNANP) and Alexa Montefiore	Southee North
The IUCN World Heritage Outlook - setting a decande challenge for the World Heritage Convention	15:30 - 17:00	Sue Lieberman	Southee North

Tuesday - November 18, 2014

What	When	Who	Where
Reaching conservation goals by strengthening protected area systems across Latin America and Angola: Innovative case studies	08:30 - 10:00	Julie Kunen and assorted National Park Service Directors and Staff	Jamison Room

Select Publications

	A comparison of marine protected areas and alternative approaches to coral-reef management.
	A Master Plan for Wildlife in Sarawak: preparation, implementation and implications for conservation. (Book Chapter)
	Adaptive Comanagement of a Marine Protected Area Network in Fiji
	Albertine Rift, Africa. Climate and Conservation: Landscape and Seascape Science, Planning, and Action.
	Aligning conservation priorities across taxa in Madagascar with high-resolution planning tools
	An ecology-based policy framework for human-tiger coexistence in India (Book Chapter)
	Another inconvenient truth: The failure of enforcement systems to save charismatic species
	Are Central Africa's Protected Areas Displacing Hundreds of Thousands of Rural Poor?
	Assessing the conservation status of the tiger Panthera tigris at priority sites in Peninsular Malaysia
	Avoiding conflicts and protecting coral reefs: customary management benefits marine habitats and fish biomass
	Balancing livestock production and wildlife conservation in and around Southern Africa's transfrontier conservation areas
	Benefits of wildlife consumption to child nutrition in a biodiversity hotspot
	Biodiversity conservation in a changing climate: A review of threats and implications for conservation planning in Myanmar
	Bringing the tiger back from the brink—The six percent solution
	Building Capacity for Protected Area Management in Lao PDR
	Bushmeat hunting and use in the Makira Forest north-eastern Madagascar: a conservation and livelihoods issue
	Can Taxation Contribute to Sustainable Management of the Bushmeat Trade? Evidence from Gabon and Cameroon
	Can the IUCN 2008 Protected Areas Management Categories Support Pacific Island Approaches to Conservation?
	Case Study 4: Monitoring of wildlife populations: lessons learned from Central Africa (Book Chapter)
	Central Africa’s protected areas and the purported displacement of people: A first critical review of existing data (Book Chapter)
	Changes in a coral reef fishery along a gradient of fishing pressure in an Indonesian marine protected area
	Changes in life history and ecological characteristics of coral reef fish catch composition with increasing fishery management
	Changes in reef fish biomass in Karimunjawa National Park: a test of the effectiveness of government gazetted marine parks in Indonesia
	Co-management approaches and incentives improve management effectiveness in the Karimunjawa National Park, Indonesia
	Comanagement of coral reef social-ecological systems
	Comparison of marine spatial planning methods in Madagascar demonstrates value of alternative approaches
	Conducting an ecological gap analysis for the new Madagascar protected area system
	Conservation biology and real-world conservation
	Conserving large populations of lions – the argument for fences has hole
	Critical thresholds and tangible targets for ecosystem-based management of coral reef fisheries.
	Data-driven models for regional coral-reef dynamics
	Decadal trends in marine reserves reveal differential rates of change in direct and indirect effects
	Distribution, status, and conservation needs of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in Lampung Province, Sumatra, Indonesia
	Do community-conserved areas effectively conserve biological diversity? Global insights and the Indian context
	Do protected areas safeguard biodiversity? (Book Chapter)
	Economic Valuation of Subsistence Harvest of Wildlife in Madagascar
	Ecoregional scale seagrass mapping: A tool to support resilient MPA network design in the Coral Triangle
	Emerging marine protected area networks in the coral triangle: Lessons and way forward
	Estimating elephant population density and abundance from dung pile density: field methods (Book Chapter)
	Evaluating the effectiveness of management of the Malindi-Watamu marine protected area complex in Kenya
	Evaluating the influence of candidate terrestrial protected areas on coral reef condition in Fiji
	Extent and ecological consequences of hunting in Central African rainforests in the twenty-first century
	Forest conservation delivers highly variable coral reef conservation outcomes
	Forest elephant crisis in the Congo Basin
	Forest Elephants: Tree Planters of the Congo
	Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features
	Great Apes and Biodiversity Offset Projects in Africa - The Case for National Offset Strategies
	How effective are MPAs? Predation control and 'spill-in effects' in seagrass-coral reef lagoons under contrasting fishery management
	Human proximity and habitat fragmentation are key drivers of the rangewide bonobo distribution
	Human-carnivore conflict in China: a review of current approaches with recommendations for improved management
	Hunting patterns in tropical forests adjoining the Hkakaborazi National Park, north Myanmar
	Identification and channel characteristics of cetacean hotspots in waterways of the eastern Sundarbans mangrove forest, Bangladesh
	Impacts of Protected Areas on Local Livelihoods in Cambodia
	Improving social acceptability of marine protected area networks: A method for estimating opportunity costs to multiple gear types in both fished and currently unfished areas
	In defense of fences - Response
	Incorporating Conservation Zone Effectiveness for Protecting Biodiversity in Marine Planning
	Incorporating effectiveness of community-based management in a national marine gap analysis for Fiji
	Integrated planning for land-sea ecosystem connectivity to protect coral reefs
	Integrating community-managed areas into protected area systems: The promise of synergies and the reality of tradeoffs (Book Chapter)
	Lack of conservation effort rapidly increases African great ape extinction risk
	Landscape scale, ecology-based management of wild tiger populations, Washington, DC
	Law Enforcement Monitoring - Lessons learned over Fifteen Years in the Albertine Rift Region of Africa Report for World parks Congress, Sydney 2014.
	Law, custom and community-based natural resource management in Kubulau District (Fiji).
	Leconi-Bateke-Lefini Landscape (Book Chapter)
	Legal Ivory Trade in a Corrupt World and its Impact on African Elephant Populations
	Lope-Chaillu-Louesse Landscape (Book Chapter)
	Management of the Kenyan coast
	Mapping recent deforestation and forest disturbance in northeastern Madagascar.
	Mapping vulnerability and conservation adaptation strategies under climate change.
	Márcio Ayres: New Approaches to the Conservation and Management of Protected Areas in Amazônia (Book Chapter)
	Mare Custoditum: The Odyssey of Protecting the Sea (Book Chapter)
	Modelling Impacts of Poaching on the Sumatran Elephant Population in Way Kambas National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia
	Monitoring elephants and assessing threats - a manual for researchers, managers and conservationist (Book)
	Optimal protection of the world’s threatened birds, mammals and amphibians (Book Chapter)
	Optimism and Challenge for Science-Based Conservation of Migratory Species in and out of U.S. National Parks
	Patterns of human-wildlife conflicts and compensation: Insights from Western Ghats protected areas.
	Perceived Benefits of Fisheries Management Restrictions in Madagascar
	Poverty and protected areas: An evaluation of a marine integrated conservation and development project in Indonesia
	Priority actions for sustainable forest management in the International Year of Forests
	Priority Forests for Conservation in Fiji: landscapes, hotspots and ecological processes
	Projections of the impacts of gear-modification on the recovery of fish catches and ecosystem function in an impoverished fishery
	Public-private partnerships as a management option for protected areas
	Rainforest Pharmacopeia in Madagascar Provides High Value for Current Local and Prospective Global Uses
	Recent decline in suitable environmental conditions for African great apes
	Reef fish structure and cascading effects in response to artisanal fishing pressure
	Response of the coral reef benthos and herbivory to fishery closure management and the 1998 ENSO disturbance
	Response to 'Is the Displacement of People from Parks only 'Purported' or is it Real?' (Schmidt-Soltau 2009)
	Roadless Wilderness Area Determines Forest Elephant Movements in the Congo Basin
	Salonga-Lukenie-Sankuru Landscape (Book Chapter)
	Searching for sustainability: are assessments of wildlife harvests behind the times?
	Selection criteria for suites of landscape species as a basis for site-based conservation
	Setting conservation priorities in Fiji: Decision science versus additive scoring systems
	Sinking the flagship - The case of forest elephants in Asia and Africa
	Sinks as saviors: Why flawed inference cannot assist tiger recovery
	SMART PATROL for Smart protection
	State of the Forests of Central Africa: Regional Synthesis (Book Chapter)
	Strategic Planning for Species Conservation - A Handbook. Version 1.0. S. Hedges and E.Sanderson were lead writers and editors of this peer-reviewed book.
	Testing for correspondence between coral reef invertebrate diversity and marine park designation on the Masoala Peninsula of eastern Madagascar
	The Congo Basin Forest Partnership: Priority Landscapes (Book Chapter)
	The Coral Triangle Initiative: what are we missing? A case study from Aceh
	The importance of Asia’s Protected Areas for safeguarding commercially high value species (Book Chapter)
	The Perceived Impact of Customary Marine Resource Management on Household and Community Welfare in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia
	The performance and potential of protected areas
	The spatial structure of hunter access determines the local abundance of forest elephants (Loxodonta africana cyclotis)
	To Fence or Not to Fence
	Transboundary conservation in the greater Virunga landscape: Its importance for landscape species
	WCS Fact Sheet on Strengthening Protected Area Management in Latin America
	Weak compliance undermines the success of no-take zones in a large government-controlled marine protected area
	What Does It Mean to Successfully Conserve a (Vertebrate) Species?
	Why South-east Asia should be the world's priority for averting imminent species extinctions, and a call to join a developing cross-institutional programme to tackle this urgent issue
	Wildlife decline and social conflict

Key Staff

	Dale Miquelle Director, Russia
	Saw Htun Country Program Director, Myanmar
	Madhu Rao Senior Advisor and Representative of WCS in Singapore
	Oscar Loayza Deputy Director, Greater Madidi-Tambopata Landscape Conservation Program
	Rob Tizard Senior Technical Advisor, Myanmar
	Deo Kujirakwinja Director Eastern DRC Projects
	Stacy Jupiter Director Melanesia Program
	Alexa Montefiore Senior Program Manager, Americas
	Anak Pattanavibool Country Program Director, Thailand
	Andriamandimbisoa Razafimpahanana REBIOMA Project and Information System Management Coordinator
	Caleb McClennen Vice President, Global Conservation
	David S. Wilkie Director, Conservation Measures
	Elizabeth Bennett Vice President, Species Conservation
	Emma J Stokes Regional Advisor and Conservation Scientist, Africa
	Inaoyom Sunday Imong Director, Cross River Landscape
	James Watson Director, Science and Research Initiative
	John Gwilym Robinson Executive Vice President, Conservation & Science
	Joseph Walston Vice President, Field Conservation Programs
	Julie Kunen Vice President, Americas
	Kathryn Mathias Conservation Trust Investment Survey Project Manager
	Ray Victurine Director, Business & Conservation Initiative
	Ruth Starkey Technical Advisor, Tanzania
	Simon Hedges Asian Elephant Coordinator & Ivory Trade Policy Analyst
	Susan Lieberman Vice-President, International Policy
	Susan Tressler Vice President, Program Development