Despite aspirations for conservation impact, mismatches between research and
implementation have limited progress towards this goal. There is, therefore, an urgent need …

Conservation practitioners, policy-makers and researchers work within shared spaces with
many shared goals. Improving the flow of information between conservation researchers …

Communities have an important role to play in biodiversity conservation. However,
community-based conservation as a panacea, like government-based conservation as a …

While ecological and biophysical sciences have dominated the theory and practice of
conservation, practitioners and researchers worldwide know that conservation initiatives …

Despite increased focus on the importance of navigating the spaces between research and
implementation, conservation science is still not put into practice as often as it could be …

Researchers on conservation planning and practice have increasingly recognized and
adopted the pivotal role of landscape attributes in shaping the effectiveness of protected …

Effective conservation requires addressing three fundamental questions whose answers can
only be sought in conservation practice:(1) What should our goals be and how do we …

Conservation assessment is a rapidly evolving discipline whose stated goal is the design of
networks of protected areas that represent and ensure the persistence of nature (ie, species …

Many conservation plans remain unimplemented, in part because of insufficient
consideration of the social processes that influence conservation decisions. Complementing …

Global biodiversity losses continue despite tremendous growth in the volume of
conservation science and many local successes. Research that can achieve conservation …