6.9 Other Statewide Conservation Partners and Initiatives
6.9.10 Eastern North Carolina/Southeastern Virginia (ENC/SEVA) Strategic Habitat Conservation Team Te ENC/SEVA Strategic Habitat Conservation (SHC) Team is a partnership of DOI agencies (USGS, USFWS, and NPS) working together and with other partners to promote strategic landscape-level conservation in the ENC/SEVA ecoregion. Te mission is to accomplish priority landscape-level conservation collaboratively by utilizing the Strategic Habitat Conservation framework to develop a comprehensive Strategic Habitat Conservation Plan (Plan). Te Plan provides guidance for members, partners, and collaborators by establish- ing mutual conservation goals, objectives, strategies, and metrics to gauge the success of conservation eforts. In this way, conservation actions can help recover and sustain spe- cies’ populations as part of whole communities and systems, together with their ecological functions and processes. Te planning vision is to establish a network of public and private lands and waters in the ENC/SEVA ecoregion that sustain resilient populations of priority fsh, wildlife, and plants, and the habitats on which they depend, for the beneft and appreciation of current and future generations. Tis includes adaptively identifying conservation needs and priorities; mutually establishing annual conservation goals and objectives; identifying challenges and opportunities for strategic habitat conservation implementation and developing reme- dies; establishing and fostering partnerships to accomplish conservation goals and objec- tives; and implementing strategies to accomplish them. Eforts include compiling data to establish baseline conditions for targets, integrating an assessment of climate change vul- nerability, and developing appropriate monitoring plans and securing capacity to imple- ment them collaboratively with partners. 6.9.11 Greater Uwharrie Conservation Partnership (GUCP) GUCP is a collaboration of diverse partners that works cooperatively to conserve wild- life, habitats, and associated natural resources in the Greater Uwharries region of the south-central Piedmont in North Carolina. Partner organizations are: NHP, NCPCP, NCWRC, NCMNS, NC Zoological Park, Piedmont Land Conservancy, USFS, NRCS, USFWS, Central Park NC, Environmental Defense Fund, Te Land Trust for Central NC, and Te Nature Conservancy. Since its founding in 2006, the partnership has permanently conserved more than 6,500 acres and enhanced habitat on more than 3,400 acres for high-priority wildlife and rare plant habitat. Other work includes biological surveys on 230 sites leading to the discovery of a 1,000-acre signifcant natural heritage area in Anson County with the largest popula- tion in the world of river sedge, a rare plant. Partners have contacted more than 200 private landowners in the region’s most valuable natural areas, to ofer technical guidance about
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