[Invasive-species] Fwd: IUCN: Consultation - proposed IUCN standard classification of the impact of invasive alien species (EICAT)

Wed Aug 7 17:00:36 CEST 2019

dear colleagues

Please see the below opportunity -
best regards,
Hilde
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Van: IUCN Members <membership at iucn-crm.org>
Date: ma 5 aug. 2019 om 19:48
Subject: IUCN: Consultation - proposed IUCN standard classification of the
impact of invasive alien species (EICAT)
To: Dr Hilde EGGERMONT <h.eggermont at biodiversity.be>

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*To:  IUCN Members:  IUCN Commission members*

*CC: National and Regional Committees, IUCN Leadership Team, IUCN
Councillors, Director General, IUCN Leadership Team, Membership Focal
Points, Union Development Group*
*Invitation to take part in the IUCN member consultation (second round), on
a proposed IUCN standard classification of the impact of invasive alien
species.* *Deadline: 2 September 2019*

Dear IUCN Members, Dear IUCN Commission members,

In July 2017 IUCN invited its Members and Commission members to take part
in a consultation on the scientific underpinning and governance of IUCN’s
proposed standard classification of the impact of invasive alien species,
known as “Environmental Impact Classification of Alien Taxa” (EICAT). We
received 260 responses from across 77 countries, and IUCN and its SSC
Invasive Species Specialist Group would like to thank all those who
participated in this process.

Building on the results and feedback received through this consultation,
and lessons learned from the application of EICAT a *version 2* of the
proposed standard has been published, along with the results of the first
consultation. We therefore invite all IUCN Members and Commission members
to *take part in round two of the consultation, on the second version of
the proposed standard classification of the impact of invasive alien
species, EICAT. *

Firstly we recommend that you *review the results of the first consultation*,
and the IUCN responses to questions and comments received through the
consultation. Following this, please read the second version of the *EICAT
Categories and Criteria* (the proposed ‘standard’), and the
accompanying *Guidelines
for using EICAT *document. There is also a separate document that
summarises the major changes made to EICAT version 1. All these documents
can be accessed on the IUCN EICAT webpage, by clicking here
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(see *Downloads* on the right hand side of the page).

Your comments on version two can be *submitted to IUCN through a small
online questionnaire*, which can be found by clicking here
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The consultation period will last for four weeks from today, *ending on 2
September 2019*.

*Background information*

Invasive Alien Species (aka invasive non-native species) are recognised as
a major direct and indirect driver of biodiversity loss across the globe,
their economic impact is estimated at hundreds of billions of dollars each
year, and they have significant negative effects upon food security, and
human health and well-being.

This has led to invasive alien species being prioritised in international
policy fora, including Aichi Target 9 of the Strategic Plan for
Biodiversity 2011-2020 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and
Target 15.8 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which call for the
prioritisation of invasive alien species for prevention, eradication or
control;

However, as there is no global, standardised, systematic evaluation,
prioritisation and monitoring process in place for invasive alien species,
IUCN were requested in 2014 by parties to the CBD (COP XII Decision 17
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to develop a *system for classifying invasive alien species based on the
nature and magnitude of their impacts.* IUCN, through its Species Survival
Commission Invasive Species Specialist Group has now developed such a
system, published in 2015, called ‘*Environmental Impact Classification of
Alien Taxa* (EICAT)’.

At the 2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress, IUCN members passed Resolution
WCC-2016-Res-018
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‘Toward
an IUCN standard classification of the impact of invasive alien species’,
which “*requests the SSC and Director General to conduct a consultation
process involving all relevant stakeholders within the Union to develop
EICAT, integrating the outcomes into the IUCN G lobal Invasive Species
Database and the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, thus providing an
essential background for the achievement of Aichi Target 9 (and subsequent
related targets) and SDG Target 15.8”.*

*EICAT Summary*

EICAT is a simple, objective and transparent assessment process that
classifies alien species into one of five categories, according to the
magnitude of the detrimental impacts to the environment. It has 5
objectives:

   1. identify those taxa that have different levels of environmental
   impact;
   2. facilitate comparisons of the level of impact by alien taxa among
   regions and taxonomic groups;
   3. facilitate predictions of potential future impacts of taxa in the
   target region and elsewhere;
   4. aid in prioritisation of management actions; and
   5. aid in evaluation of management methods.

It must be stressed that EICAT

   1. is *NOT *a risk assessment, and its output alone should not be used
   to assign the priority that should be attached to the control or management
   of any given alien species. Risk assessment and priority setting require
   contextual information that is not incorporated into the EICAT scheme.
   2. is *NOT *a statutory list of harmful invasive species.
   3. should *NOT* to be used on its own to identify which alien species
   should be regulated.

It is envisaged that the EICAT scheme will be used by scientists, land
managers and conservation practitioners as a tool to gain a better
understanding of the magnitude of impacts caused by different alien taxa,
to alert relevant stakeholders to the possible consequences of the arrival
of certain alien species, and to inform the prioritisation, implementation
and evaluation of management policies and actions.

The EICAT system must be applied in a consistent and comparable manner
across different assessments. Therefore, IUCN have developed a standardised
protocol to be applied to this assessment, that is analogous to, and draws
heavily upon, the framework adopted for classifications for the globally
recognised IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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.

If you have any questions on this process, or are having any problems
accessing the consultation questionnaire, please contact Kevin Smith (IUCN
Invasive Species Programme Officer kevin.smith at iucn.org
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).

Kind regards,

*IUCN *

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-- 
*Hilde Eggermont*, PhD
Coordinator of the Belgian Biodiversity Platform
<http://www.biodiversity.be/>
Vice-Chair of the BiodivERsA  <http://www.biodiversa.org/>Partnership
IPBES <http://www.biodiversity.be/ipbes> National Focal Point
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