Conservation Evidence Blog

Building the evidence for a wilder future

Nigel Doar considers the need for more and better evidence to help nature’s recovery, and looks at The Wildlife Trusts’ approach to tackling it

How can we ensure business engagement with biodiversity delivers for nature? And what is the role of consultancy?

Tom White discusses the importance of evidence use by businesses and in biodiversity consultancy: key players for delivering biodiversity goals

Behaviour change for achieving the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Molly Brown explores the role of behaviour change interventions in conservation, and introduces a new rapid evidence synthesis on this topic

Conservation Optimism Summit: empowering evidence use for a brighter future for nature

The Conservation Evidence team share insights from a workshop we ran at the recent Conservation Optimism Summit

Introducing global guidance on salt marsh and tidal flat restoration

Vanessa Cutts introduces new evidence-based guidance on coastal ecosystem restoration.

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National parks and other protected areas often fail to conserve Earth’s forests

Timothy Neal shares his new research into the effectiveness of protected areas for global forests.

The next steps for transforming conservation: ideas from the Effectiveness Revolution workshop

20 ideas to make conservation more effective, from a recent workshop in Cambridge – hosted by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, TRAFFIC and Conservation Evidence.

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US Fish and Wildlife Service Division of International Conservation is first government program to become an Evidence Champion

Shannon Rivera shares exciting news of a new Evidence Champion, and explains some of their track record in evidence-based conservation.

Conservation Evidence at the European Congress of Conservation Biology

Update from the 7th European Congress of Conservation Biology in Bologna, where the Conservation Evidence team is actively engaged.

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A tale of a plucky masters student, resources wasted, and how lack of follow up means valuable lessons from large conservation projects can be lost…

Julia Jones explains the lessons we can learn from a failed crayfish eradication project in Malta