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This two-page document is a summary of the USFWS decision support framework effort as of August 2023. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) decision support framework for conservation introductions (framework) aims to foster inclusive, transparent and defensible decision making about when to use conservation introductions as a strategy for preventing species extirpation or extinction, re-establishing an ecological function lost through extinction, or directing ecosystem change toward a state that better supports conservation goals. The framework is being developed for use by the USFWS in HawaiĘ»i, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Federated States...
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Around the globe, fish and wildlife managers are facing increasingly complex management issues because of multiscale ecological effects like climate change, species invasion, and land-use change. Managers seeking to prevent extinctions or preserve ecosystems are increasingly considering more interventionist techniques to overcome the resulting changes. Among those techniques, translocation methods that intentionally move species into new, less impacted habitats are being considered. These types of translocations are known by a range of terms, including “managed relocation” and “assisted migration,” but the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC, 2013) has proposed...
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As climate change continues to alter species’ habitats and the natural processes on which they depend, our ability to use historical and current conditions as guides for species conservation and habitat restoration is diminishing. The USFWS and its partners are making increasingly challenging conservation decisions to preserve biodiversity and healthy ecosystems. Conservation introduction, defined as the intentional movement and release or outplanting of a species outside its indigenous range for the purpose of conservation, is one approach that can be used to respond to conservation emergencies such as imminent extinction, and to facilitate adaptation to climate change as species assemble into new biotic communities...
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On April 16-17, 2022, 41 people participated in an online workshop sponsored by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to gather information to inform a conservation introduction (CI) decision framework. The geographic scope of this workshop was the Pacific Northwest (Idaho, Oregon, and Washington).CIs are translocations of populations or species outside their known historical distributions for conservation purposes. Most frequently this action is considered when an endangered species is viewed as unable to recover within its known historical range (managed relocation) but may also involve moving species to new locations to replace ecological functions (ecological replacement) (IUCN 2013). Further, given that suitable...
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The Pacific Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative (PILCC), better known as the Pacific Islands Climate Change Cooperative, is one of 22 LCCs established by Secretarial Order No. 3289, which focus on on-the-ground strategic conservation efforts at the landscape level. LCCs are management-science partnerships that inform integrated resource-management actions addressing climate change and other stressors within and across landscapes.
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