The Unglamorous Essential Foundation of Conservation Science

This editorial describes the need for a standard taxonomy to create a common language that conservationists can use to talk about the problems we all face. The authors also formally release the first public versions of the IUCN-CMP Taxonomy of Direct Threats and the...

Improving the Practice of Conservation

This article outlines a framework and research agenda for conservation that uses the principles of adaptive management to help conservation practitioners to identify goals, measure progress, take effective action, and learn to do conservation better.

Using Conceptual Models as a Planning & Evaluation Tool in Conservation

This article describes conceptual models—a tool that helps articulate assumptions about a project’s context and what a project team hopes to achieve. It highlights real-world examples, discusses the relationship between conceptual models and other evaluation tools,...