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…
Here you will find excellent tools to implement the Conservation Standards including:
- standard classifications,
- spatial and planning tools
- libraries of strategies, results chains and indicators.
Resource Library
Standardized Classification of Threats to Biodiversity: Definitions for Quebec’s Conservation Data Centre (CDC) v1.0 (2021) (2021)
Collaboratively developed by partners from Quebec, Canada and beyond, this resource builds off of CMP’s threats classification to provide a more detailed, third-level classification, and will provide several benefits :…
Global Environment & Development Agendas: An Integrated Strategy for Conservation (2020) (2021)
This report, a product of CMP’s Collaborative Learning Initiative, provides an overview of Global Environment and Development Agendas: Strategies for Conservation. It includes the defining characteristics of this strategy, a…
Does the Use of the Conservation Standards Result in Proposal Funding Success? (Making the Business Case for the Conservation Standards) (2020) ()
This report, a product of CMP’s Collaborative Learning Initiative, represents the first comprehensive attempt to systematically and rigorously assess the effects of the CS on funding success. Nonetheless, we faced…
Holistic Approach for Healthy and Resilient Social-ecological Systems (2020) (2021)
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,…
Conservation Standards Overview Training PowerPoints (formatted for CS v. 4.0) (2021) (2021)
CMP and CCNet members have updated the basic presentations supporting the Conservation Standards Steps 1-2. These presentations use high-quality photographs and reduced text on slides, and they include detailed presenters’…
Demonstrating Integrated Conservation Planning and Implementation for Habitat Management and Wildlife Protection in Mount Mantalingahan Protected Landscape (2020) (2021)
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,…
Third Place (Tie) Case Study Competition 2020: Think to Learn, Learn to Know, Know to Adapt, Adapt to Win ()
Chile is the endemic home to the world’s southernmost palm tree, the Chilean Wine Palm. For centuries, the tree has been heavily exploited, largely for its sap used to make…
Second Place Case Study Competition 2020: Reducing Opportunities for Unlawful Transport of Endangered Species (ROUTES) ()
There is significant potential to reduce illegal wildlife trade through training and collaborating with airport staff. To take advantage of this potential, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) initiated…
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