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Conservation Monitoring Effectiveness Techniques (COMET)

COMET is a free, practitioner-focused repository of field-proven, cost-effective methods for monitoring conservation progress — grounded in both scientific and Indigenous ways of knowing. COMET addresses a key challenge in…

Does External Financing Influence National Commitments to Biodiversity Conservation? (2020)

The conservation community has committed technical and financial assistance to low- and middle-income country (LMIC) governments to support the management costs associated with protected areas (PAs) as a means of...

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,...

Case Study Protected Area Management: Institutionalising the Conservation Standards in a Parastatal South Africa (2017)

CapeNature, the conservation authority for the Western Cape Province, South Africa, initiated a process in 2017 to strengthen adaptive management of the protected areas under its management. Management plans strive...

Holistic Approach for Healthy and Resilient Social-ecological Systems (2020)

This report, a product of CMP’s Collaborative Learning Initiative, describes the rationale for and conditions that warrant a holistic approach to conservation efforts. Through a very ambitious and rapid-fire effort,…

Demonstrating Integrated Conservation Planning and Implementation for Habitat Management and Wildlife Protection in Mount Mantalingahan Protected Landscape (2020)

Southern Palawan in the Philippines is home to the Mount Mantalingahan Protected Landscape, the headwater of 33 watersheds and the habitat of newly discovered plants and of wildlife unique to...

Third Place (Tie) Case Study Competition 2020: Conservation and Adaptive Management Strategies for Chile’s National System of Protected Areas (SNASPE)

In Chile, the Conservation Standards were used to evaluate protected areas (PAs) across an entire country. Chile manages its PAs through its National System of Protected Areas (SNASPE). In 2015,...

Anaho Island National Wildlife Refuge Management Plan (2015)

This excellent, thorough, evidence-based application of Steps 1 and 2 of the Open Standards applies to a small wildlife refuge in the United States - the Anaho Island National Wildlife...

Using Systematic Monitoring to Evaluate and Adapt Management of a Tiger Reserve in Northern Lao PDR (Johnson et al, 2012)

Located in one of a very few Asian Tiger source areas, this inspirational tale of adapting actions, strategies, monitoring and even objectives based squarely on evidence by hundreds of people…

Wunambal Gaambera Healthy Country Plan (2010)

The contribution of Healthy Country Planning to empowering indigenous peoples and in getting people back on country is very exciting and this plan is an excellent example of that movement….