Critical Threat Ranking (2012)
Description: Part of the FOS Adaptive Management course, this power-point presentation guides threat ranking, using the Swan wetlands as an example to illustrate points. It is vetted as excellent, but…
WWF Project & Programme Standards: Threat Ranking (2007)
Description: This guidance resource supports the implementation of the WWF Standards of Conservation Project and Programme Management. However, the coverage of stresses is a little short on examples, and it…
IUCN – CMP Direct Threats Classification Version 4.0
Effective conservation requires a shared language to identify and assess threats to ecosystems and species. Since 2008, the IUCN Species Survival Commission and Conservation Measures Partnership have maintained a unified Threat...
Yourka Reserve Case Study (2018)
Bush Heritage Australia, with their Yourka Reserve – A Unique Tropical Savanna Ecosystem came third in the 2018 Case Study Competition.
Key lessons gleaned in this case study were:
Don’t let lack of knowledge imped...
Theory of Change: a Study of Successful Use in Laos (2018)
A theory of change to directly incentivize villages and others to reduce the threat of wildlife hunting and increase the populations of wildlife had assumptions and results tested over four years in Laos.
The study provided ...
Full-cycle Adaptive Management in Australia’s Arid Rangelands (~2006)
Boolcoomatta is a conservation reserve that has been managed by Bush Heritage Australia for 10 years, during which time the management plan has cycled through three major adaptations based on analysis of implementation and resu...
Threats and Actions Classifications (2016)
A key foundation of any science is a common nomenclature that practitioners can use to describe—in a mutually intelligible way—the problems they are facing and the solutions they are using. For example, if a conservation pr...
MPA Network Design and Management: Framework and Guidance (2021)
The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management and FOS Europe have developed a framework and a 10-step method for tackling the big challenges in marine conservation. The framework contains definitions, guiding principle...
Altai-Sayan Ecoregion Conservation Strategy (2012)
[caption id="attachment_365785" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Ukok Plateau, Republic of Altai (Denis Bogomolov/ WWF-Russia)[/caption]
This is an excellent example of a large, multi country strategic plan in...
Conservation Action Planning Excel Workbooks (~2009)
Here you can access the original and the updated version of a comprehensive Excel workbook, where users can enter planning data based on the Conservation Action Planning (CAP) process (a process that helped inform the Conserv...
