Monitoring Wildlife Populations for Management

This manual is one of eight modules developed by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the American Museum of Natural History for training protected area staff in Laos.  The manual draws off of the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation and provides basic...

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...

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,...