Conservation Effectiveness News

How effective is the EU’s marquee policy to reduce the illegal timber trade?

Mike Gaworecki 19 Jun 2024

How effective is the EU’s marquee policy to reduce the illegal timber trade?

Mike Gaworecki 19 Jun 2024

How sharing and learning from failures can transform conservation (commentary)

Josephine Chambers, Kate Massarella, Robert Fletcher 18 Nov 2021

Examining ‘What Works In Conservation’

Mike Gaworecki 1 Sep 2021

Is planting trees as good for the Earth as everyone says?

Mike Gaworecki 13 May 2021

Failure in conservation projects: Everyone experiences it, few record it

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Oct 2019

The nature of conservation evidence: Imperfect, but good enough (commentary)

David Wilkie and Michael Painter 4 Dec 2018

Conservation Effectiveness series sparks action, dialogue

Shreya Dasgupta, Zuzana Burivalova 23 Apr 2018

Response to critique on Conservation Effectiveness series (commentary)

Zuzana Burivalova 17 Apr 2018

Seek higher standards to honestly assess conservation effectiveness (commentary)

Madeleine McKinnon | Samantha Cheng | Lynn Dicks | Ruth Garside | Andrew Pullin | Claudia Romero 17 Apr 2018

Do environmental advocacy campaigns drive successful forest conservation?

Mike Gaworecki 29 Mar 2018

The ups and downs of marine protected areas: Examining the evidence

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Jan 2018

Do protected areas work in the tropics?

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Dec 2017

Experience or evidence: How do big conservation NGOs make decisions?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Nov 2017

Dani man in Indonesian papua. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Does community-based forest management work in the tropics?

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Nov 2017

Cash for conservation: Do payments for ecosystem services work?

Mike Gaworecki 12 Oct 2017

Does forest certification really work?

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Sep 2017

Deforestation in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

What works in conservation? In-depth series starts next week

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Sep 2017

Conservation community failing to use evidence to make decisions, scientists say

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jul 2017

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