Background Community-based conservation (CBC) promotes the idea that long-term
conservation success requires engaging with, and providing benefits for local communities …

Community-based conservation (CBC) promotes the idea that conservation success
requires engaging with, and providing benefits for, local communities. However, CBC …

Over decades, biodiversity conservation researchers and practitioners have developed
theories and conceptual frameworks to inform the planning, implementation, and evaluation …

Conservation interventions require evaluation to understand what factors predict success or
failure. To date, there has been little systematic investigation of the effect of social and …

Evaluations of the success of different conservation strategies are still in their infancy. We
used four different measures of project outcomes—ecological, economic, attitudinal, and …

Background Systematic conservation planning is a discipline concerned with the
prioritisation of resources for biodiversity conservation and is often used in the design or …

Conservation practitioners, policy makers, and donors agree that there is an urgent need to
identify which conservation approaches are most likely to succeed in order to use more …

Commonalities and complementarities among approaches to conservation monitoring and
evaluation (M&E) are not well articulated, creating the potential for confusion, misuse, and …

Community-based conservation projects implemented in conjunction with protected area
management often struggle to meet expectations. This article argues that outcomes will …

Community-based conservation can support livelihoods and biodiversity, while reinforcing
local and Indigenous values, cultures, and institutions. Its delivery can help address cross …