Why is the Fish and Wildlife Service implementing SHC?
In order to keep pace with advancements in conservation science and technology while assuring accountability and adaptive management, the Service is implementing SHC. Through the SHC approach, the Service will: • focus programs on common goals for restoring and sustaining fish and wildlife populations; • increase the ability to determine and communicate likely outcomes from conservation actions; • improve accountability to Congress and our partners and stakeholders, and measure resource outcomes; • provide structured and transparent decision-making; • utilize limited resources efficiently and effectively; • predict and address increasing threats such as urban growth, climate change, invasive species, and diseases; • use scientific information to influence the wider conservation community. Under SHC, the Service will, across all programs, use biological planning and conservation design to plan on-the-ground projects and conservation activities and adjust future actions as we learn.
