and describing, in a standard way, all the tasks required to control the key factors (positive or negative), which influence the condition of the features, and thereby maintain the features in a favourable condition; producing and budgeting various work programmes to control the factors, for example, five-year plans, rolling- plans, annual schedules, financial schedules, and work schedules for specified categories of staff; providing a site/species monitoring system to check the effectiveness of the plan against the specified objectives; facilitating the exchange of management information by reporting, within, and between, sites and organisations; using feedback from monitoring to improve the management system. The sequence of identifying features, setting objectives, and then selecting the factors to be controlled by projects with scheduled work plans, comprises a management plan. The most effective way of organising a CMS is to assemble it as a set of interlinked forms as a relational database. However, it is also possible to operate a management plan with a spread sheet or a collection of hyperlinked 'to-do' lists. Planning cycle of a CMS Scope of conservation management Conservation management implies the control of environmental and socioeconomic factors in order: to make more efficient use of materials, to recycle materials and energy that are vital to human survival, to restore derelict land and to maintain the capacity of ecosystems, which are the basis of all economies, to renew and grow. This is a vast area of applied science and technology, which is developing alongside new social attitudes towards the values of natural resources. Over the years, particularly at a governmental level, conservation management has come to focus on biological resources such as: Agriculture and pastoralism Fisheries Forestry Water Tourism and recreation Wildlife Genetic resources From this perspective the aim is to foster attitudes in community and industry to the use of biological resources, changing from the 'maximum yield' approach to one of ecologically sustainable yield. This new attitude recognises the need for conservation of biodiversity and maintenance of ecological integrity. Since the first Global Environment Summit in 1992, national strategies are now commonly in place to integrate regimes of conservation management within and between industry sectors and communities to meet appropriate environmental, economic and social objectives. The practical aim is now to turn these strategies into operational systems and so balance exploitative management of natural resources with their conservation management. The goal is to provide the principles and tools to