A Biodiversity Scorecard for Colorado
Conservationists and planners need methods to identify priority areas for conservation, information on how to characterize the relative importance, quality, and urgency of these areas (inform conservation strategies), and a means to measure conservation success on a regional or statewide basis over time. The Colorado Natural Heritage Program has developed a prototype analysis of the status of Colorado’s biodiversity, using a “scorecard” approach. Following the three-part model of “effective conservation” developed by The Nature Conservancy, our scorecard evaluated the status of ecological systems, animals, and rare plants under three broad categories: 1) Biodiversity status – including size, quality; and landscape integrity 2) Threat status – focused on both current and potential future impacts; and 3) Protection status.
Year Published: 2008.
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