High Conservation Values (HCVs) are a set of social and ecological values that are considered a high priority for conservation. They include the presence of endemic or endangered species, rare or endangered ecosystems, and resources and ecosystem services on which local communities depend for their livelihoods all of which are significantly threatened by large-scale land conversion from forest to agriculture. In order to meet the criteria for RSPO certification, plantation owners are obliged to maintain and protect HCV areas within their concessions, however without regular and standardized monitoring, successful, efficient and robust management of HCVs is not possible.
Regular patrol monitoring of HCV areas in oil palm plantations can provide plantation managers with the information they need to mitigate the negative impacts of oil palm cultivation on biodiversity; however, current guidance on how to do this is limited. ZSL is developing a practical protocol with accompanying easy-to-use software and training modules to enable field staff to effectively monitor key variables in HCV areas in oil palm landscapes. It is intended to support an adaptive management approach for improved protection of biodiversity within plantations, whereby management actions are informed by the results of patrol monitoring.
Results from regular patrols are analysed by accompanying software and reported in clear and easily understandable graphs and maps.
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