The ultimate ambition of a natural capital approach is for nature to be managed in a way that delivers the best outcome for society. This remains a challenge because existing governance arrangements do not take a ‘systems view’, fail to take account of nature’s multiple stakeholders; long-run considerations; and the public good characteristics of many…
5th March 2019
Everyone likes to talk about success, but for improving the practice of conservation, understanding how and why interventions fail is often more useful than understanding why they succeed. The aim of this project is to enable CCI partners and their collaborators to better assess, communicate and apply learning from failure. Promoting failure as a crucial…
8th January 2019
CISCA’s aim was to translate citizen science data collection into conservation action in Africa. It did this through developing the capacity of 26 African conservation citizen science managers, giving them skills to engage citizen scientists, design robust citizen science protocols, generate useful data and use the results to inform conservation strategies and policy
12th November 2018
Voluntary sustainability standards and safeguards are mechanisms that can be used to track and reduce negative corporate environmental and social impact, improve transparency and promote best practice. Transforming the way goods are produced is a key focus of many environmental conservation organisations and is reflected in global targets including SDG 12 and Aichi target 4.…
6th November 2018
The Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) partnership was tasked with developing a map of key sites for life on earth that can guide both governments, industry and conservation partners to safeguard sites that are most critical for conservation across the planet. The goal of this project was to identify sites that potentially qualify as KBAs for…
30th October 2018
The decline in long-distance migrant landbirds is an important issue of growing conservation concern. Technology is enabling rapid advances in research, but an overview and gap analysis to aid development of appropriate policy and conservation action responses has been lacking. This project reviewed and synthesised recent advances in knowledge of African-Eurasian migrants. Science and policy…
30th October 2018