{"id":264,"date":"2024-02-16T16:07:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T16:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/?p=264"},"modified":"2024-03-08T09:51:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T09:51:47","slug":"caroline_lees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/2024\/02\/16\/caroline_lees\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Task Force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Caroline Lees<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color\"><strong>Program Officer, IUCN SSC Conservation Planning Specialist Group<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Caroline works for the IUCN SSC&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpsg.org\/\">Conservation Planning Specialist Group<\/a>&nbsp;(CPSG) as a conservation planning facilitator and wildlife population modeller. For over thirty years, CPSG has supported diverse groups of stakeholders to plan the conservation of threatened species. In 2016, at the request of the SSC Chair, CPSG took up the challenge of facilitating an increase in the SSC\u2019s involvement in planning, with a focus on responding to the needs of governments as they work to conserve and protect their biodiversity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the taskforce Caroline will help to maintain a connection between CPSG\u2019s species planning advice, tool development and capacity building work, and the higher-level strategic advice being developed by the IUCN SSC to inform the CBD\u2019s post-2020 agenda for global species conservation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"623\" height=\"643\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/files\/2024\/02\/Caroline-lees_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/files\/2024\/02\/Caroline-lees_1.jpg 623w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/files\/2024\/02\/Caroline-lees_1-291x300.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/task-force-members\/\">Back to Task Force Members<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Lees Program Officer, IUCN SSC Conservation Planning Specialist Group Caroline works for the IUCN SSC&nbsp;Conservation Planning Specialist Group&nbsp;(CPSG) as a conservation planning facilitator and wildlife population modeller. For over thirty years, CPSG has supported diverse groups of stakeholders to plan the conservation of threatened species. In 2016, at the request of the SSC Chair, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/2024\/02\/16\/caroline_lees\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meet the Task Force&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gbf-task-force-members"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ssc-global-biodiversity-framework-taskforce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}