Design Alternatives for Evaluating the Impact of Conservation Projects

This chapter discusses a range of design options to evaluate conservation interventions and the different results they produce. As alternatives to experimental and quasi-experimental design and the use of counterfactuals, these evaluation design options consider the...

Is Our Project Succeeding?

This guide describes the Threat Reduction Assessment (TRA) approach – a low-cost, practical alternative for assessing conservation project success.  It is based on data collected through simple techniques, directly related to project interventions, and readily...

Monitoring for Management of Protected Areas

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 describes how to apply the Open Standards by monitoring conservation targets, threats...

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...