SECAS brings together public and private organizations around a bold vision for the future of our region. We're connecting the lands and waters of the Southeast and Caribbean to support healthy ecosystems, thriving fish and wildlife populations, and vibrant communities. With a data-driven spatial plan and an ambitious regional goal, SECAS helps accelerate conservation action in the places where it will make the biggest impact.
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SECAS staff have developed two new draft indicators of imperiled mammals and reptiles and amphibians that draw from the Regional Species of Greatest Conservation Need list. Help review imperiled mammals and imperiled amphibians and reptiles indicators for the 2025 Southeast Conservation Blueprint update
Every year, we host workshops that provide people opportunities to review the Southeast Conservation Blueprint. Through these workshops, and by working closely with people who use the Blueprint to help inform their work, we learn if we’re missing important places or have incorrectly identified places as a priority. From our last round of workshops, we heard from several people that the Blueprint is missing some of the lands and waters that are important for terrestrial animal biodiversity (we already represent areas of aquatic animal biodiversity through the imperiled aquatic species indicator).
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The SECAS symposium at the 2024 SEAFWA annual conference was a success! SECAS symposium at SEAWFA - Building the Southeast landscape of the future together
For the last 10 years, SECAS has presented a symposium in conjunction with the annual conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (SEAFWA). Generally, this has been an opportunity for SECAS to showcase its recent accomplishments and to gain insights and feedback from symposium attendees regarding future directions. However, the 2024 symposium on December 11th in Augusta, GA, Building the Southeast Landscape of the Future Together, departed from the typical focus on deep dives into the Southeast Conservation Blueprint and the SECAS Goal Report, and instead emphasized a related effort, the Southeast Landscape of the Future, to build on the success, agreement, and commitment to collaboration and collective action that emerged from the February 2024 Southeast Landscape of the Future Summit.
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Wildflower and native plant habitat restoration plot at the University of Missouri Southwest Research Center near Mt. Vernon, MO. Photo by Mizzou CAFNR/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0. Grasslands and savannas indicator review opportunity
Just like in previous years, we could use your help reviewing potential indicator updates for the 2025 Blueprint. If you’re interested in grasslands and savannas, there will be two opportunities to learn about and review some potential improvements in the grasslands and savannas indicator. The two biggest potential improvements are:
- Improved approach for tree encroachment in relatively treeless grasslands out west
- A new approach to clustering potential grasslands near known or likely grasslands
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