Conservation Effectiveness
Conservation Effectiveness is a multi-part series investigating whether conservation strategies work or not. The series is the result of a collaboration between Mongabay staff reporters Shreya Dasgupta and Mike Gaworecki, and a team of conservation scientists led by tropical forest ecologist Zuzana Burivalova from Princeton University.
This page includes detailed methodology we’ve used, references to all studies included in the stories and links to downloadable data for each conservation strategy.
Detailed methodology
– How we reviewed the evidence for stories on forest certification, payments for ecosystem services, community-based forest management and terrestrial protected areas.
– How we reviewed the evidence for story on marine protected areas.
Downloadable data
- Data on forest certification (pdf)
- Data on payments for ecosystem services (PES) (pdf)
- Data on community-based forest management (pdf)
- Data on terrestrial protected areas (pdf)
- Data on marine protected areas (pdf)
References
- Studies reviewed for story on forest certification
- Studies reviewed for story on payments for ecosystem services (PES)
- Studies reviewed for story on community-based forest management
- Studies reviewed for story on terrestrial protected areas
- Studies reviewed for story on marine protected areas
Infographics
- Visualization of evidence on forest certification
- Visualization of evidence on payments for ecosystem services (PES)
- Visualization of evidence on community-based forest management
- Visualization of evidence on terrestrial protected areas
- Visualization of evidence on marine protected areas
Articles
- Exploring the history of the Amazon and its peoples: an interview with John Hemming
27 September 2020, 6:59 pm - The vanishing trails of Sri Lanka’s sloth bears (Commentary)
26 September 2020, 2:39 am - New study shows where we should grow more forest to fight climate change
25 September 2020, 5:04 pm - Rangers on the run: Half-marathon aims to raise funding for front-liners
25 September 2020, 4:13 pm - New partnership brings high-resolution satellite imagery of the tropics to all
25 September 2020, 3:52 pm - Watch: Rare wildlife caught on camera in a remote Liberian rainforest
25 September 2020, 3:35 pm - Video: In this Philippine community, women guard a marine protected area
25 September 2020, 2:35 pm - Ikea faces Swiss complaint over wood believed to have been illegally logged
25 September 2020, 1:46 pm - As the Amazon burns, what happens to its biodiversity?
24 September 2020, 5:31 pm - BlackRock’s $400m stake in Amazon meatpackers defies sustainability cred
24 September 2020, 4:34 pm - TIME’s list of 100 most influential people in 2020 includes Indigenous Waorani leader
24 September 2020, 3:37 pm - Philippine community goes to court to stop coal plant in ecological haven
24 September 2020, 10:44 am - For the Pantanal’s jaguars, fires bring ‘death by a thousand needle wounds’
24 September 2020, 10:38 am - Bailique: Why these islands in the Amazon Delta are falling into pieces
24 September 2020, 10:05 am - New tool alerts ships when whales are near. But will they slow down?
23 September 2020, 3:27 pm - Landed by the thousands: Overfished Congo waters put endangered sharks at risk
23 September 2020, 8:47 am - Flip-flops, fishing gear pile up at Aldabra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
23 September 2020, 6:47 am - Past illegal activity dogs Chinese fleet that fished squid near Galapagos
23 September 2020, 5:59 am - Less than half of world’s humid tropical forests have high ecological integrity: Study
22 September 2020, 10:06 am - What is a pampas cat? Candid Animal Cam is back in the Americas
22 September 2020, 9:26 am
Commentaries
