Conservation Measures
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Rebecca Esselman on 4/23/2008 |
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 | Conservation Measures. Here you will find support for measuring the results of conservation efforts in order to determine progress toward conservation goals and inform adaptive management. |
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Announcing the release of TNC's Conservation Measures Business Plan. December, 2008. The Nature Conservancy is committed to measuring the results of our conservation work. New approaches are being developed across the organization, and important lessons are being learned. This section of the Conservation by Design Gateway focuses on a growing body of new methods and tools to support this effort. We begin by describing the world of conservation measures with two categories - Status Measures and Strategy Effectiveness Measures. Status measures address the general question: how is the biodiversity doing that we care about? More specifically, these measures evaluate the integrity and viability of biodiversity, threats, and conservation management status from local to global scales - including conservation projects, ecoregions and regions, major habitat types and realms. Strategy effectiveness measures address a very specific question: are our strategies and actions achieving their desired results? These desired results are stated as measurable objectives, and strategy effectiveness measures track our progress towards achieving them. Balancing the need to answer status and strategy effectiveness questions in a world of limited resources is a challenge. Managers and scientists must work together closely to identify the most important management questions, and the scientists and practitioners must identify the most appropriate measures and methods for answering these questions. Ultimately, the goal of any measures program is to answer the most important conservation questions with evidence rather than intuition. We hope that the new tools, methods, and case studies presented here will help practitioners achieve this goal, and contribute to collectively improving the practice of conservation. |  | Status Measures Strategy Effectiveness Measures Guidance for Project-level Measures Results Chains
TNC's Measures Series Working paper #1 Contact us |
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Photo: © Margo Burnham The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is an international, nonprofit organization that preserves plants, animals and natural communities representing the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. Using the methods and tools of Conservation by Design, the Conservancy and its more than one million members have been responsible for the protection of more than 47 million hectares in Latin America, North America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit us on the Web at nature.org for more information. |
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