# Secure and effectively manage remaining key habitats

**Parent:** https://communityfix.org/issue/342

**Solution #349** · by Arnaud Gissinger · 2026-08-07

Protect and effectively manage the remaining feeding, breeding, refuge and movement areas required by threatened animal populations.

**Tags:** `biodiversity`, `habitat-loss`, `species-recovery-coordination`, `protected-area-governance`

**SDGs:** Life on Land, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Partnerships for the Goals

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Identify the sites and ecological processes essential to a threatened species, then secure them through context-appropriate governance such as protected areas, Indigenous or community conserved areas, conservation agreements, land purchase or enforceable spatial planning.

Management must go beyond legal designation. It should define responsibilities, reduce the site-specific pressures, include affected rights-holders, finance recurring operations and monitor biological outcomes. [Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Target 3](https://www.cbd.int/gbf/targets/3/) sets global expectations for effective, equitably governed and ecologically representative conservation.

This approach works only when protection covers the habitats and seasons the species actually uses and when displacement of harmful activity is managed rather than ignored.

## Links

- [CBD Global Biodiversity Framework Target 3](https://www.cbd.int/gbf/targets/3/)


## Case studies

- [#269 — Van Long community protection for Delacour's langur · partial · Van Long Wetland Nature Reserve, Ninh Bình Province, Vietnam](https://communityfix.org/case-study/269.md) — Van Long Nature Reserve protects the largest known population of Delacour's langur through reserve management coordinated between the Ninh Bình Forest Protection Department, community-led patrol team…
- [#266 — Geometric Tortoise Preserve habitat protection · partial · Western Cape, South Africa](https://communityfix.org/case-study/266.md) — The partners established the Geometric Tortoise Preserve in 2015 to secure a large remaining population and its renosterveld habitat. Rainforest Trust reports that the preserve now covers 898 acres a…

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