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Technically Strong and Politically Savvy Supplemental Guide (2020)

Enhancing Thinking and Working Politically (TWP) When Practicing the Conservation Standards at USAID This supplemental guide offers practical advice for thinking and working politically (TWP) when practicing the Conservation Standards…

Outdoor Recreation Planning and Management Guide 2023

Outdoor recreation planning & management in protected areas using the Conservation Standards is a product of collaboration between experts from protected area management authorities in Sweden and FOS Europe. The…

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…

Start-Up Guidance for USAID Biodiversity Activities: Process Overview (2016)

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...

Pause and Reflect Toolkit (2023)

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…

Good Practices Guide for Pause and Reflect (2023)

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…

Guidance Document: Alignment Between the Conservation Standards and Corporate ESG Frameworks

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...

Nature-based Solutions Learning Initiative 2022 Final Report

Nature-based Solutions (NbS) is an expanding field of study focused on how the conservation, restoration, and sustainable management of ecosystems can address socio-environmental problems, such as invasive species and climate...

Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands

In April 2016, a two day workshop to introduce the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation to the Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative (ABSI) was run...

Parks Canada Conservation Standards Modules

Parks Canada developed these modules to provide staff accessible, self-paced training materials for Steps 1 (Assess) and 2 (Plan) of the Conservation Standards, as well as a set of reference materials....