In accordance with the PAPF planning methodology
adopted for this planning process, the Nature Conservancy’s
Conservation Action Planning (CAP) methodology has been used to
help identify the Ecological Management Programme’s
management objectives and actions. The CAP methodology provides a
mechanism for focusing ecological management by enabling the
identification and development of an accurate definition and
understanding of the area’s most significant ecological
features, and the major threats to these features. This methodology
has been now been applied in many conservation areas around the
world, and it is based on the premise that, with limited human and
financial resources available to managers, it is impractical to
attempt to manage and monitor every single aspect of the complex
ecology of an area, and management effort is therefore best focused
on a limited number of the area’s most important
features.
