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...

Maximum Yield?

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...

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.