The guidelines presented here provide a step-by-step process guiding the identification, development and implementation of a wetland restoration project, and as such they can be integrated into administrative guidelines. However, every restoration project is unique, and whilst these principles and guidelines are designed to be useful in many situations, they are neither universally applicable nor definitive.  Principles and guidelines for wetland restoration - 8th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971) Valencia, Spain, 18-26 November 2002 [Published: 2003]

The IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) released its Strategic Planning for Species: A Handbook, with a companion Strategic Planning for Species Conservation: An Overview in 2008. In 2010 its Species Conservation Planning Sub-Committee, answering to the SSC Steering Committee, was established to promote planning for species conservation primarily within the family of SSC Specialist Groups. The aim was to encourage and catalyse planning work that would be explicitly strategic for conservation action, following the Red List assessment work that many Specialist Groups were engaged in. [Published: 2017]

This document provides guidelines to the application of version 3.1 of the categories and criteria, and in so doing addresses many of the issues raised in the process of reviewing the 1994 categories and criteria. This document explains how the criteria should be applied to determine whether a taxon belongs in a category of threat, and gives examples from different taxonomic groups to illustrate the application of the criteria. These guidelines also provide detailed explanations of the definitions of the many terms used in the criteria. [Published: 2017]

Grasslands projects manage and restore existing grassland habitat or create new tracts of grassland habitat (an open area dominated primarily by grasses and wildflowers, with few or no trees or shrubs.) Grasslands projects can vary widely in size, depending on the amount of land and resources available. [Published: 2016]

Reliable, standardized and replicable methodologies for quickly assessing key ecosystem values in the field are essential for conservation planning and decision-making at the local to regional scale at which most threats occur. Rapid biological assessments are a cost-effective solution to this problem, providing data in a timely manner to address a wide range of conservation needs, and in particular to establish a baseline that can be used to detect changes over time. [Published: 2016]

Wetlands projects attempt to manage and enhance existing wetland habitat or create new wetland areas. Wetlands projects vary in size, but are usually limited by existing conditions that are conducive to the soil saturation or inundation needed for wetland habitat, or by the resources and space available to create those conditions. [Published: 2015]

Pollinator projects create or enhance habitat for pollinators and/or use existing pollinator habitat as a focus for conservation education.  [Published: 2015]

Marine intertidal habitat projects try to create, restore or protect existing marine intertidal habitat. In rocky intertidal areas, the main goal may be to protect existing areas from negative impacts by human activities such as collecting or routine site operations, and establish a monitoring and control program for invasive species. [Published: 2015]

Landscaping projects can either be new installations of landscaping, or existing landscaping updated to benefit biodiversity. Landscaping projects stand apart from most habitat projects in that they have a formal, defined and often manicured appearance. [Published: 2015]

Forest projects attempt to manage or enhance existing forest habitat or create new tracts of forested habitat. Forest projects can vary widely in scale, depending on the amount of land and resources available. [Published: 2015]