Center for plant conservation best reintroduction practice guidelines

This is a quick reference for practitioners to use when planning and executing rare plant reintroductions. The term reintroduction in this appendix implies any attempt to introduce propagules to an unoccupied patch, including augmentations, introductions, and translocations. Managed relocations would require following these same guidelines n addition to the points presented by Haskins and Keel (this volume) and the modeling, interdisciplinary, multiagency, and potentially international collaborations cautioned by Kennedy and colleagues (this volume). The sections are intended to help practitioners do the following: justify the decision to conduct a reintroduction, prepare the reintroduction design with legal, funding, species biology, horticulture, and recipient site considerations in mind, implement the reintroduction, conduct project aftercare, and design monitoring to document long-term establishment of the rare population. All phases of the reintroduction process should include opportunities for public involvement. In addition, we suggest a template to use for documenting all aspects of the reintroduction that can be found on the North Carolina Botanical Garden website.