One protected area at a time, Sweden and Norway have been expanding the use of the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation to improve collaboration and develop sound management plans. This work started in 2008 when FOS guided a Swedish to improve collaboration...
The Axios Delta is a relatively natural Mediterranean delta just next to Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city. The delta is now part of the European network of biological importance (Natura 2000), which means that Greece is legally obligated to maintain its...
FOS strives to foster learning within the conservation community. We took this to heart with our own work when we undertook the Measuring Conservation Impact study, starting in 2002. This study—based on a review of over 300 publications—documented the...
Covering 210 million hectares of northern Bolivia, southeastern Peru, and western and central Brazil, the Southwestern Amazon forests encompass some of the richest forest communities on Earth. It is home to numerous indigenous communities whose culture and identity...
Since its launch in Spring 2007, the graduate course in Adaptive Management for Conservation Projects course has been repeated annually at the University of Maryland and has been reproduced in other academic institutions including the University of California Davis,...
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