Guam comprehensive wildlife conservation strategy (GCWCS)

Abstract

With the passage of the Commerce, Justice, and State Appropriations Act of 2001, Congress mandated that each state and territory develop its own comprehensive strategy. The strategy is required to have eight elements including a description of the status of species determined to be a species of greatest conservation need, important habitats and their condition, conservation actions, monitoring of these species, and gauging conservation success. Important in the development is a "good faith effort" to include the public in the development.