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 Threats Classification to guide planning, action, and learning. Now, with input from thousands of projects and users, Version 4.0 is here and introduces refined categories, new threat types, and detailed modifiers for deeper analyses. This update enhances how practitioners address challenges like climate change, invasive species, and human impact—empowering more precise, impactful conservation efforts worldwide. Access the IUCN –…

El Kit de Herramienta de Pausa y Reflexión proporciona a los facilitadores una colección de recursos, donde encontrarán todo lo que necesitan para liderar y apoyar con los procesos de Pausa y Reflexión. Estos recursos van desde instrucciones para facilitar diagramas semáforo hasta abordar desafíos comunes de facilitación. https://biodiversitylinks.org/library/resources/pausa-reflexion-kit-de-herramientas.pdf English version here

Esta guía presenta opciones para los procesos de pausa y reflexión dirigido a grupos a nivel de actividades para informar el aprendizaje de la actividad y la planificación anual de trabajo. https://biodiversitylinks.org/library/resources/guia-de-buenas-practicas-para-la-pausa-reflexion.pdf English version here

Start-Up Guidance for USAID Biodiversity Activities: Process Overview describes the main steps to initiate a new biodiversity or integrated activity, including a theory of change workshop. This short guide explains the core tasks and provides important tips and considerations for each step. https://biodiversitylinks.org/projects/completed-projects/measuring-impact/resources/start-up-guidance-for-usaid-biodiversity-activities-2013-process-overview/view

The Pause and Reflect Toolkit provides facilitators with a centralized collection of resources, enabling them to find everything they need to lead and support a pause and reflect process. These resources range from instructions for facilitating stoplight diagrams to addressing common facilitation challenges. https://biodiversitylinks.org/library/resources/pause-and-reflect-toolkit.pdf/view The “Pause & Reflect Toolkit” is also available in Spanish.

The “Good Practices for Pause and Reflect in the Activity Cycle” presents a framework for group-based activity-level pause and reflect processes to inform activity learning and annual work planning. The guide offers pause and reflect practices to help teams digest what happened during the previous year of implementation and make informed decisions that they can operationalize during annual planning processes to support adaptive management. https://biodiversitylinks.org/library/resources/good-practices-guide-pause-and-reflect.pdf The “Good Practices Guide for Pause and Reflect” is also available in Spanish.

For over 20 years, organizations worldwide have been using and collaboratively developing a common language and set of guidelines and tools to address diverse conservation problems through the Conservation Standards (CS). In parallel, many organizations have been developing corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) frameworks aimed at developing a common language and set of guidelines and tools to help companies and financial institutions make changes needed for an equitable, nature and climate-friendly future. In fact, companies looking for standards for nature protection may now face the potential issue of there being too many choices. This project aimed to create alignment…