Online Symposium on Conservation Translocations in Development Mitigations – Applying the IUCN Guidelines and Best Practice
26th Jun 2024
Do you translocate plants or animals to allow development? Are you ready to do this to IUCN conservation translocation standards? Have you reviewed the guidelines but still have questions about their application to your situation? Are you seeking more information to justify the additional costs to ...
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Do you translocate plants or animals to allow development? Are you ready to do this to IUCN conservation translocation standards? Have you reviewed the guidelines but still have questions about their application to your situation? Are you seeking more information to justify the additional costs to developers? If so, then look no further! This symposium is here to guide and support you on your journey.
Hosted by the IUCN National Committee UK Species Survival Working Group and CIEEM, this collaborative event brings together experts in the field to address your questions and concerns regarding translocations.
Mitigation translocations protect individual animals and plants threatened by unavoidable development, but the wider ecological and conservation impacts remain uncertain. To ensure these translocations contribute to long term nature recovery in the UK, adherence to IUCN conservation translocation guidelines, the Scottish Code for Conservation Translocations and the English Code for Conservation Translocations is essential. They ensure that the benefits extend beyond individuals and encompass entire species and ecosystems.
Conservation translocations to IUCN standards are regularly conducted in the UK and involve extensive planning, risk assessing and monitoring. Our symposium provides an opportunity to meet the experts, determine the key points of each step in a good translocation journey and ask your questions in a supportive environment.
Multiple speakers will address topics ranging from understanding the motivations behind the different types of translocations, to addressing the genetic implications of moving plants and animals. You will have the opportunity to determine the key steps in planning and what’s involved in measuring and monitoring the success of your work. We’ll explore the disease risks of moving plants and animals and how to minimize negative welfare implications. And finally we’ll look at the socio economic factors and legislation and how it might differ between countries within the UK.
Our speakers will help you to improve the conservation success rate of your mitigation translocation while engaging communities and providing benefits for biodiversity and developers.
Symposium Agenda
- Welcome speech (Dr Axel Moehrenschlager, Chair of the IUCN SSC Conservation Translocation Specialist Group)
- Introduction to Conservation Translocations, the IUCN guidelines, the Scottish and English Codes, and mitigation translocations (Dr Martin Gaywood, NatureScot)
- Planning a translocation (Dr Sarah Dalrymple, Liverpool John Moores University)
- Monitoring translocations (Dr Richard Griffiths, University of Kent)
- Structured decision making for conservation translocations (Dr John Ewan, Zoological Society of London)
- Animal disease and parasite control (Dr Katie Beckmann, University of Edinburgh)
- Plant disease and parasite control (Dr Matt Elliot, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh)
- Genetic and genomic considerations (Dr Aline Finger, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh)
- Welfare considerations (Dr Lauren Harrington, WildCRU)
- Socio-economic / cultural considerations (David Bavin, National Trust)
- Regulatory compliance in the context of Britain (Dr Martin Gaywood, NatureScot)
Join us at the Symposium on Conservation Translocations for Mitigation Purposes to gain valuable insights, guidance and support. Together, let’s make a difference to biodiversity, conservation, and development initiatives.
