This “how-to” guidance document shows how to construct Results Chains – a tool that helps teams clarify their assumptions about how conservation actions will abate a threat and conserve biodiversity.
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...
In recent years, sustainable agriculture has been promoted as an effective tool to reduce deforestation in tropical areas. This analysis (available in both English and Spanish) explores the conditions under which sustainable agriculture works to achieve conservation...
This paper draws upon key informant interviews and focus groups as qualitative methods for understanding the links between human health and biodiversity in order to promote conservation as a means to protect and improve human quality of life.
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