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Systematic conservation planning identifies priority areas to cost-effectively meet conservation targets. Yet, these tools rarely guide wholesale declaration of reserve systems in a single time step due to financial and implementation constraints. Rather, incremental scheduling of actions to progressively build reserve networks is required. To ensure this incremental action is guided by the original plan, and thus builds a reserve network that meets all conservation targets, strategic scheduling, and iterative planning is needed

The global community has a blind spot concerning the extent of the risks posed by human-induced climate change to the well-being, health and physical survival of populations. There are many adverse environmental and social impacts associated with climate change, including hotter - and in the tropics more humid - conditions; increases in weather-related disasters; reduced food yields; disruptions to water sufficiency and seasonal rains; changes in the geographical range, seasonality and activity of many infectious disease agents; and mental health disorders in damaged, disrupted or displaced communities. These all carry risks, often serious or fatal, to human health. Under climate change conditions, the health and safety of humans are as vulnerable, eventually if not immediately, as is the health of ecosystems, particular species, soils and pastures, and the chemical profile, vitality and productivity of the oceans.

F rom the writings of Aristotle (1) to the musings of Gilbert White in Georgian England (2), migratory birds have fascinated and inspired people for generations. Migrants undertake remarkable journeys, from endurance flights exceeding 10,000 km by bar-tailed godwits (Limosa lapponica) (3) to the annual relay of arctic terns (Sterna paradisaea), which fly the equivalent of the distance to the moon and back three times during their lives (4). Migratory species make major contributions to resource fluxes, biomass transfer, nutrient transport, predator-prey interactions, and food-web structure within and among ecosystems (5) and play an important role in human culture (6). Yet more than half of migratory birds across all major flyways have declined over the past 30 years (7)

PACC reports

Reports from the PACC project

This document is part of a technical report series on conservation projects funded by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) and the Conservation International Pacific Islands Program (CI-Pacific). The main purpose of this series is to disseminate project findings and successes to a broader audience of conservation professionals in the Pacific, along with interested members of the public and students. The reports are being prepared on an ad-hoc basis as projects are completed and written up. In most cases the reports are composed of two parts, the first part is a detailed technical report on the project which gives details on the methodology used, the results and any recommendations. The second part is a brief project completion report written for the donor and focused on conservation impacts and lessons learned.