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...
This article proposes that there are three options for integrating human socio-economic development into its conservation work: (1) have an integrated mix of conservation and development ends, (2) use development means in service of strict conservation ends, and (3)...
To address the lack of standardized systems for dealing with threats within and across conservation organizations, this paper focuses on developing five sets of conventions for describing threats: (a) a framework for defining threats and related factors, (b) a...
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...
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,...
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