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Community Resilienc Partnership Programme

Climate Change Resilience

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The community resilience partnership program (CRPP) is intended to help countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific scale up investments in climate adaptations, especially investments as the community level that explicitly target nexus between climate change, poverty, and gender. In doing so, the CRPP aims to support countries to meet their commitments to the Paris Agreement, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risks Reduction and the Sustainable Development Goals,

Archipelago-wide island restoration in the Galapagos Islands: Reducing costs of invaisve mammal eradication programs and reinvasion risk

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Campbell, Karl J.

Carrion, Victor

Cruz, Felipe

Donian, C. Josh

Lavoie, Christian

Invasive alien mammals are the major driver of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation on islands. Over the past three decades, invasive mammal eradication from islands has become one of society's most powerful tools for preventing extinction of insular endemics and restoring insular ecosystems. As practitioners tackle larger islands for restoration, three factors will heavily influence success and outcomes: the degree of local support, the ability to mitigate for non-target impacts, and the ability to eradicate non-native species more cost-effectively. Investments in removing invasive species, however, must be weighed against the risk of reintroduction. One way to reduce reintroduction risks is to eradicate the target invasive species from an entire archipelago, and thus eliminate readily available sources. We illustrate the costs and benefits of this approach with the efforts to remove invasive goats from the Galápagos Islands. Project Isabela, the world's largest island restoration effort to date, removed > 140,000 goats from > 500,000 ha for a cost of US$10.5 million. Leveraging the capacity built during Project Isabela, and given that goat reintroductions have been common over the past decade, we implemented an archipelago-wide goat eradication strategy. Feral goats remain on three islands in the archipelago, and removal efforts are underway. Efforts on the Galápagos Islands demonstrate that for some species, island size is no longer the limiting factor with respect to eradication. Rather, bureaucratic processes, financing, political will, and stakeholder approval appear to be the new challenges. Eradication efforts have delivered a suite of biodiversity benefits that are in the process of revealing themselves. The costs of rectifying intentional reintroductions are high in terms of financial and human resources. Reducing the archipelago-wide goat density to low levels is a technical approach to reducing reintroduction risk in the short-term, and is being complemented with a longer-term social approach focused on education and governance.

Invasive mammal eradication on islands results in substantial conservation gains

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Jones, Holly P.

More than US$21 billion is spent annually on biodiversity conservation. Despite their importance for preventing or slowing extinctions and preserving biodiversity, conservation interventions are rarely assessed systematically for their global impact. Islands house a disproportionately higher amount of biodiversity compared with mainlands, much of which is highly threatened with extinction. Indeed, island species make up nearly two-thirds of recent extinctions. Islands therefore are critical targets of conservation. We used an extensive literature and database review paired with expert interviews to estimate the global benefits of an increasingly used conservation action to stem biodiversity loss: eradication of invasive mammals on islands. We found 236 native terrestrial insular faunal species (596 populations) that benefitted through positive demographic and/or distributional responses from 251 eradications of invasive mammals on 181 islands. Seven native species (eight populations) were negatively impacted by invasive mammal eradication. Four threatened species had their International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List extinction-risk categories reduced as a direct result of invasive mammal eradication, and no species moved to a higher extinction-risk category. We predict that 107 highly threatened birds, mammals, and reptiles on the IUCN Red List6% of all these highly threatened specieslikely have benefitted from invasive mammal eradications on islands. Because monitoring of eradication outcomes is sporadic and limited, the impacts of global eradications are likely greater than we report here. Our results highlight the importance of invasive mammal eradication on islands for protecting the worlds most imperiled fauna.

Feral goat control in New Zealand / by John P.Parkes

Parkes, J.P.

About 150feral goat herds occupy about 16% of New Zealand. They are pests because of their effects on indigenous biota. Since 1936, government agencies have attempted to eradicate or control many herds. Common flaws in control campaigns include confusing ends (protection of resources) with means (killing goats), no measures of effectiveness, and lack of sustained action where eradication is impossible. One of four strategic options may be adopted: no action--giving a stable but undesirable outcome; eradication-- giving a stable and desirable outcome; annual sustained control-- giving a stable and desirable outcome but only if inherently fickle government effort is sustained; and occasional sustained control--giving unstable outcomes with or without the desired results depending on the goals and hunting frequency. Control tactics used are hunting on foot with or without dogs, hunting from helicopters, poisoning natural foliage, and fencing.

The effects of feral goats (Capra hircus) on Island ecosystems / by Bruce E. Coblentz / by Bruce E. Coblentz

Coblentz, B.E.

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