The Conservation Evidence Toolkit

This blog post was written by William Morgan (whm29@cam.ac.uk), Rebecca Smith (rks25@cam.ac.uk) and Alec Christie (a.christie@imperial.ac.uk)

Back in July 2024, we hosted a workshop with some of our Evidence Champions. We were keen to learn how they are embedding evidence in their conservation projects and explore ways that we can improve what we do here at Conservation Evidence. From these discussions, it became clear that we could improve how we communicate the tools and resources we have developed, as well as provide better guidance on how they can be used by organisations to enhance evidence use and improve practice.

With this in mind, we have developed a new interface for our Conservation Evidence Toolkit: a collection of freely available tools and resources, co-designed with practitioners, funders, policymakers and others to support the use and generation of evidence for improved practice [1].

We have also taken inspiration from the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation to structure this interface around the five main stages of a conservation project.

So, for any stage of a conservation project, you can see a brief description of the main activities, and explore a collection of useful tools and resources.

Check out the Toolkit now! 👇

Click here to download for free

1. Smith, R. K., Morgan, W. H., Al‐Fulaij, N., Amano, T., Bowkett, A. E., Christie, A., … & Sutherland, W. J. (2023). Co‐designing a toolkit for evidence‐based decision making in conservation: Processes and lessons. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 4(3), e12269.