MANAGEMENT PLAN AND MONITORING SYSTEM FOR EREBUNI STATE RESERVE

(Armenia) Colobmo (Sri-Lanka) July 15-21, 2007

Protected Area Selected: Erebuni Sate Reserve

Strict Nature Reserve: Management category Ia

Founded in 1981 89 ha Wild cereals, particularly

Triticum boeoticum Boiss., Triticum araraticum Jakubz., Triticum urartu Thum.ex Gandil., Aegilops tauschii Coss

The Template of the Management Plan Developed

Description Evaluation Goals and

objectives Action plans

Management plan: Description

Location Tenure Administration and

infrastructure Geology, geomorphology,

hydrology Biology (flora, fauna*,

communities) Local community needs References, Maps*, Photos*_________*Not ready yet

Management plan: Evaluation

Conservation status and history

Legal framework Site boundaries Evaluation criteria Factors influencing

management (internal, external, natural, human-induced, obligations, legal constraints, management constraints, impact assessment)

Management plan: Goals and Objectives Long-term managerial goals Definition of operational

objectives Managerial objectives

(management of habitats, species management, management of utilization, management of accessibility)

Training Research

Management plan: Action plan

5 Year action plan Projects (reporting,

administration, control)

Annual operational plan

Operational plans Annual report Revision of the project

Monitoring: Schematic outline

3 times per year

Experts

DATABASE

Daily observations

Protected area personnel

Meteorological Station

Natural disasters

Climate (T, Hum.., Precipitation)

Phenological observ.- Germination - Bushing- Spike- formation

Phenological observ.- Germination - Bushing- Spike- formation

Phenological observ.- Germination - Bushing- Spike- formation

AnnuallyExperts

Sample plots

- map- area occupied …..

- map- area occupied ……

- map- area occupied …..

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Mean number >> population size

Pestsdiseases

Monitoring: Protocols

Climate data (meteorological centre)

Journal of observations (protected area personnel, reps. of local communities)

Maps of distribution (protected area personnel)

Entering data into the database (protected area personnel)

Monitoring: Journal of observations

Climate and landscape: Records of Natural Disasters

Phenological Observations of Plants

Monitoring of Priority Plant Population Size and Distribution

Monitoring of Plant Pests and Diseases

Plant Invaders

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