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
- Clean up efforts won’t solve the plastic pollution crisis in the world’s seas
25 November 2020, 11:07 am - Indigenous leader who fought for communities and conservation mourned in Peru
25 November 2020, 9:05 am - Indonesian fisheries minister arrested over graft in lobster policy
25 November 2020, 1:10 am - Trans-Purus: Brazil’s last intact Amazon forest at immediate risk (commentary)
24 November 2020, 2:09 pm - Are industrial chemicals killing rare whales and familiar dolphins?
24 November 2020, 9:56 am - Amazon initiative pays farmers and ranchers to keep the forest standing
24 November 2020, 7:02 am - How are jaguars different from leopards? Candid Animal Cam is in the Americas
24 November 2020, 2:51 am - The newest species of Philippine false gecko is the 10th (and counting)
24 November 2020, 1:00 am - Coal stockpiles threaten public health, ancient temple, in Indonesian village
23 November 2020, 2:52 pm - Crimefighting NGO tracks Brazil wildlife trade on WhatsApp and Facebook
23 November 2020, 12:38 pm - Bottlenose dolphins could disappear from Ecuador’s Gulf of Guayaquil
23 November 2020, 5:40 am - Mongabay launches in Hindi to expand environmental journalism in India
22 November 2020, 10:59 pm - Philippine ‘raptor boy’ shows it takes a village to protect a migration route
22 November 2020, 9:54 am - Paraguay whistleblowers allege illegal deforestation cover up
20 November 2020, 12:45 pm - Inside the weaving protests of West Timor
20 November 2020, 12:25 pm - France falls short in ending deforestation linked to imported soy
20 November 2020, 11:58 am - A million hectares ablaze as forest fires sweep through Bolivia
20 November 2020, 10:36 am - New rule puts Indonesia’s protected forests up for grabs for agribusiness
20 November 2020, 4:12 am - Bug bites: Edible insect production ramps up quickly in Madagascar
19 November 2020, 3:38 pm - Building a road to recovery for subtle racism in conservation (commentary)
19 November 2020, 11:38 am
Commentaries
