Linking Conservation Translocation Goals with Strategic Monitoring to Increase Responsible Conservation Action

11/10/2025
11:00 - 12:30
CR B: Forum - Session Room 10 , Híbrido (presencial con transmisión en directo)
Sesión con interpretación

Por qué asistir

Join leading experts to explore how strategic monitoring enhances conservation translocations, ensuring species recovery and ecosystem restoration. This session will tackle key challenges, including post-release monitoring, health and welfare integration, disease risk management, and selection of release candidates, fostering collaboration and advancing science-based, adaptive translocation strategies for global conservation efforts.

Descripción de la sesión

This session, co-led by Smithsonian Institution and IUCN SSC Conservation Translocation Specialist Group, explores challenges in multi-objective monitoring and adaptive management for conservation translocations. As essential tools for achieving the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework’s Target 4, conservation translocations play a crucial role in species recovery and ecosystem restoration. While these efforts have been used for thousands of species and continue to grow, some remain insufficient or contentious. No conservation gains come without risk, and we aim to illustrate how objective-linked monitoring—including wildlife health, genetics, ecosystem impacts, behavior, social dimensions—can enable more courageous and responsible translocations. This session brings together experts to discuss priorities for a multi-dimensional framework to strengthen planning, implementation, and long-term monitoring. Panelists and participants share experiences, explore successful models, and examine tools for improving adaptive management. Through interactive World Café discussions, we dive into selected real-world challenges and contentious topics requiring transdisciplinary approaches for progress.
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Smithsonian Institution ( United States of America ) logo
Smithsonian Institution ( United States of America )
Asociaciones
Environment Agency Abu Dhabi ( United Arab Emirates ) logo
Environment Agency Abu Dhabi ( United Arab Emirates )
Headquarters logo
Headquarters
Wildlife Research and Training Institute ( Kenya ) logo
Wildlife Research and Training Institute ( Kenya )
North America Regional Office logo
North America Regional Office
Species Survival Commission logo
Species Survival Commission

Moderator

Speaker Francesca VITALI

Linking Conservation Translocation Goals with Strategic Monitoring to Increase Responsible Conservation Action

Speaker

Speaker Sarah OLSON

Linking Conservation Translocation Goals with Strategic Monitoring to Increase Responsible Conservation Action

Speaker Mohammed ALREMEITHI

Linking Conservation Translocation Goals with Strategic Monitoring to Increase Responsible Conservation Action

Speaker Peter LEIMGRUBER

Linking Conservation Translocation Goals with Strategic Monitoring to Increase Responsible Conservation Action

Speaker David NDEEREH

Linking Conservation Translocation Goals with Strategic Monitoring to Increase Responsible Conservation Action

Speaker Friederike POHLIN

Linking Conservation Translocation Goals with Strategic Monitoring to Increase Responsible Conservation Action

Speaker Axel MOEHRENSCHLAGER

Linking Conservation Translocation Goals with Strategic Monitoring to Increase Responsible Conservation Action