6. TRANSBOUNDARY CONSERVATION SURVEY AND WORKSHOP RESULTS
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For all the landscapes surveyed, the shared reason for collaboration was clear – either large ranging or migratory species, or a shared key biodiversity area (Table 1). This ‘catalyst’, or shared objective, must always be in place in order to begin the process of partnering with a neighbor to enable its joint protection or management. Beyond this catalyst, however, the specific needs for establishing a transboundary conservation landscape or partnership are less clear and invariably will be site / context specific. Some of the key principles needed to initiate transboundary conservation have been previously developed and detailed (Box 2) (Erg et al. 2012). In each of the landscapes surveyed, the establishment of the transboundary conservation work typically began through initial discussions with the field
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staff who had identified a shared problem / objective, then led to joint meetings and government participation, and in most cases ultimately led to government endorsement (Table 2). Results discussed herein are sourced from either: the workshop discussion and cited with “W”; the survey of practitioners and cited with “S”; or from the literature and cited accordingly.
