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
- Brazil’s collapsing health service, new COVID variant, raise Indigenous risk
20 January 2021, 7:27 pm - Environmental assassinations bad for business, new research shows
20 January 2021, 6:38 pm - Pet trade relies on ‘disposable’ wild chameleons from Madagascar
20 January 2021, 4:29 pm - Big cat comeback: Jaguars prowl Argentina’s Iberá Wetlands after 70 years
20 January 2021, 3:20 pm - Video: Romania’s deadly fight against illegal logging
20 January 2021, 2:08 pm - Palm oil plantations, coal mines linked to deadly Indonesia flood
20 January 2021, 10:50 am - Nature-based solutions needed to enhance climate resilience in Southeast Asia (commentary)
19 January 2021, 9:00 pm - Mozambique’s new fisheries law expands protections but old problems persist
19 January 2021, 1:51 pm - An eye in the sky on deforestation: Q&A with Jean Jardeleza and Kim Carlson
18 January 2021, 10:40 am - Protesters hold back military takeover of Balkans’ largest mountain pasture
18 January 2021, 6:40 am - Indigenous Cacataibo of Peru threatened by land grabbing and drug trade
15 January 2021, 11:41 pm - New orchid species from Guiana Highlands named by Indigenous group
15 January 2021, 3:39 pm - Brazil elections boost environmental violators to high office in Amazon
15 January 2021, 3:32 am - Humanity’s ‘ecological Ponzi scheme’ sets up bleak future, scientists warn
14 January 2021, 9:47 pm - Rare beaked whale sighting could be a world first for the species
14 January 2021, 9:05 pm - ‘There is no vaccine for climate change,’ U.N. environment chief says
14 January 2021, 1:13 pm - Deforestation spurred by road project creeps closer to Sumatra wildlife haven
14 January 2021, 10:59 am - Sumatran rhino conservation inspires a thriving creative economy
14 January 2021, 4:02 am - Podcast: What are the tropical forest storylines to watch in 2021?
13 January 2021, 10:45 pm - Indigenous agroforestry revives profitable palm trees and the Atlantic Forest
13 January 2021, 7:24 pm
Commentaries