Maintaining Connectivity
- Good and collaborative governance managing for connectivity
- Sustainable development and land use
- Integrative spatial planning
Integrative Spatial Planning is a holistic approach that coordinates land use and development across different sectors, government levels, and stakeholders to balance economic, social, and environmental goals for sustainable outcomes.
Enhancing Connectivity
- Designing ecological networks
- Designating ecological corridors (including stepping stones, flyways etc.)
- Protected area buffer zones
- Ecosystem-based approaches
An ecological corridor is defined as a clearly defined geographical space that is governed and managed over the long term to maintain or restore effective ecological connectivity (IUCN guidelines).
Corridors can be continuous or discontinues in the case of stepping stones and horizontal or vertical in the case of aquatic ecosystems. They may consist partly or entirely of natural areas managed primarily for connectivity
An ecological network is a system of core habitats (protected areas, OECMs and other intact natural areas), connected by ecological corridors, which is established, maintained or restored as needed to conserve biological diversity in systems that have been fragmented.
An Ecosystem-based approach is the integrated management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation and sustainable use in an equitable way. It places human needs at the centre of biodiversity management. It aims to manage the ecosystem, based on the multiple functions that ecosystems perform and the multiple uses that are made of these functions.
Restoring Connectivity
- Removing barriers
- Ecosystem restoration