Priority Goals
Our Vision for biodiversity in
Carolinian Canada is:
Halt the loss and achieve a
substantial increase in the size and quality of natural
communities characteristic of Carolinian Canada.
 Having
described a future focus for conservation in the Carolinian
region, it is apparent that considerable change will be required.
To make progress in the next few years, it is important to focus
our limited resources. A multi-stakeholder panel comprised of
representatives of many of the groups participating in the initial
workshop developed a series of priority goals based on the Vision
described above:
Education Goal:
Achieve broad
awareness of the importance of ecosystems, natural communities and
endangered species in the Carolinian region by the general public,
farmers and other landowners and gain their support for measures
to protect these species and habitats.
Community Action
Goal:
Achieve broad
community action to support conservation of native ecosystems,
communities and endangered species throughout the Carolinian
region, including the cities and towns.
Forest Goal:
Halt the loss of
native forest cover and achieve a substantial increase including
an appropriate proportion of interior forest and improved
connections between forests.
Stream/Wetlands
Goal:
Halt the loss and
achieve a substantial increase in quality and extent of stream and
wetland habitats.
Prairie/Savannah
Goal:
Protect all
significant remaining prairie/savannah habitats and restore the
full range of native prairie/savannah communities in appropriate
locations.
From Goals to
Action
 The
multi-stakeholder panel developed an extensive list of three year
and one year Objectives and supporting Action Plans for each of
the goals above. The Objectives are set out in detail in the
report to the Carolinian Canada Steering Committee titled A
Conservation Strategy for Carolinian Canada: Background Reports.
It should be emphasized that the
following Objectives and Action Plans are not all that is
necessary to achieve these goals. Rather they are "year
one objectives" that represent the most obvious starting
points for productive action.
Recommendations
for Participation
The following section summarizes
key Objectives and Action Plans for each Goal. The Vision suggests
that Objectives would be achieved by groups working
collaboratively. In proposing the Action Plans, certain groups
came to mind as logical participants because they are already
working in the field or have particular skills. The Panel
suggested those groups as appropriate to lead and participate in
specific actions.
It is important to note:
- These are suggestions and do not
imply any commitment by those groups (although we have already
received many offers of participation arising from the
workshop process);
- The lists of names suggested are
samples. They are incomplete and not exclusive.
- Any interested party/group with
something to contribute is welcome and nothing should be
inferred from groups not specifically named; and
- If there is no specific group
suggested, the action plan is addressed to the Carolinian
Canada Steering Committee or any successor group, such as the
Carolinian Canada Coalition.
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