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AUTHORS: Gordon Myers, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission; Susan Gibson, US Army Corps of Engineers; Mike Oetker, US Fish & Wildlife Service
ABSTRACT: This section will introduce the audience to the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS), which was initiated by the Southeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (SEAFWA) Directors and the federal Southeast Natural Resource Leaders Group with support from Southeast and Caribbean Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, the Southeast Climate Science Center and the Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership. It will focus on the collaborative approach to conservation in the Southeast through SECAS and the SEAFWA Wildlife Diversity Committee to achieve a conservation landscape of the future that sustains fish and wildlife populations. It is not sufficient to have fish and wildlife resources subsist on what is ‘left over’ after infrastructure development, instead we must define what the future needs to look like to sustain fish and wildlife populations. This section will also include insight from SEAFWA leadership on the value they are seeing from the first five years of SECAS and where they envision it going. This will include addressing species of greatest conservation need in the State Wildlife Action Plans and the key actions outlined to conserve them. Integrating agency resources across territorial jurisdictions and sharing information to fill gaps in certain states, is also being done through increased collaboration in the SEAFWA Wildlife Diversity Committee and more broadly through SECAS. Where information is lacking, states are coordinating survey and monitoring activities. This section will include an interactive discussion to identify perceived values and concerns of this collaborative approach.
Tuesday October 31, 2017 8:00am - 8:35am EDT
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