Rhett Ayers Butler
Yet in conservation, too many strategies are still chosen based on trends, intuition, or tradition—not on what science actually shows. A few weeks ago, I posted about this challenge and highlighted the Conservation Effectiveness platform. Now, a group of us, led by Zuzana Burivalova, has published a related paper: We’ve made Conservation Effectiveness open to [Continue reading]
How we evaluate the effectiveness of forest conservation is changing. In short, compared to just a few years ago, we possess a much better grasp of what works and what doesn’t. This development is one of the key takeaways from a paper Zuzana Burivalova, Natalie Yoh, H S Sathya Chandra Sagar, Eddie Game, and myself recently published in Current [Continue reading]
A paper authored by Zuzana Buřivalová, Natalie Yoh, H.S. Sathya Chandra Sagar, Edward T. Game, and myself was published today in Current Biology. Titled, Broadening the focus of forest conservation beyond carbon, the paper is a review of recent trends in forest conservation, with a focus on the tropics. Here’s the summary of the paper: [Continue reading]