Wildlife Diversity Program Quarterly Report for July–September 2025
NC Wildlife Action Plan
T he Commission is responsible for facilitating and implementing the Wildlife Action Plan, a comprehensive wildlife resource conservation blueprint. The Plan has a required 10-year revision cycle which is due by September 30, 2025 to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. • The 2025 revision of the NC State Wildlife Action Plan has been submitted to the USFWS for review and approval. The revision meets the 10-year mandatory com- prehensive review and revision criteria established by the federal State and Tribal Wildlife Grants Program. • A draft 2025 Plan was circulated for public comment in June 2025 to media, part- ners, and the public. A summary of these comments will be included in Appendix 8 of the final Plan.
• The Plan identifies fish, wildlife and plant species of greatest conservation need (SGCN), as well as research and manage- ment priorities for other species. The draft 2025 Plan has 435 SGCN which is a slight drop from the 2015 Plan with 483 SGCN, which spotlights the work and effort toward wildlife conservation work over the last 10 years. Land snails are a new addition to the Plan. • The draft 2025 Plan includes 5 conservation success stories to highlight implementation activities since 2015. These proj- ects include activities related to Wood Stork downlisting, Carolina Northern Flying Squirrel, Magnificient Ramshorn, Conservation Aquatic Center at Marion, NC, and Roanoke Logperch. • The Commission worked with Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy (SECAS) staff to update analysis of potential conservation opportunity areas (COAs). The project updates the method and results of the first COA analysis completed in 2016 through a partnership with N.C. State University. The 2025 COAs will be published as an online map tool by the end of the year, and GIS shapefile data will be made available to download.
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