What is the price of conservation? A review of the status quo and recommendations for improving cost reporting

TB White, SO Petrovan, AP Christie, PA Martin… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Wildlife conservation is severely limited by funding. Therefore, to maximize biodiversity
outcomes, assessing financial costs of interventions is as important as assessing …

[HTML][HTML] Investing in nature-based solutions: Cost profiles of collective-action watershed investment programs

S Kang, T Kroeger, D Shemie, M Echavarria… - Ecosystem Services, 2023 - Elsevier
Worldwide, an increasing number of watershed management programs invest in nature-
based solutions (NbS) to water security challenges. Yet, NbS for water security currently are …

Climate adaptation interventions for iconic fauna

C Mason, AJ Hobday, R Alderman… - … Science and Practice, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate adaptation is an emerging practice in biodiversity conservation, but little is known
about the scope, scale, and effectiveness of implemented actions. Here, we review and …

Conservation fundraising: Evidence from social media and traditional mail field experiments

T Kubo, HF Yokoo, D Veríssimo - Conservation Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Funding shortages limit conservation impact, making it vital to find effective fundraising
methods. To explore how traditional and digital conservation fundraising methods perform …

Identifying cost‐effective recovery actions for a critically endangered species

RA Pritchard, EL Kelly, JR Biggs… - … Science and Practice, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Threatened species managers are often required to make swift decisions in the face of
considerable uncertainty. We tested a structured approach for evaluating conservation …

A practical conservation tool to combine diverse types of evidence for transparent evidence‐based decision‐making

AP Christie, H Downey, WF Frick… - … Science and Practice, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Making the reasoning and evidence behind conservation management decisions clear and
transparent is a key challenge for the conservation community. Similarly, combining …

The agricultural conservation planning framework financial and nutrient reduction tool: A planning tool for cost effective conservation

EE Bravard, E Zimmerman, JC Tyndall, D James - 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We have developed an add‐on tool for use with the Agricultural Conservation Planning
Framework (ACPF) that features a multistate financial analysis and field‐scale nitrogen (N) …

Determining the economic costs and benefits of conservation actions: A decision support framework

TB White, SO Petrovan, H Booth… - … Science and Practice, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The need for conservation action to be cost‐effective is widely accepted, resulting in
increased interest and effort to assess effectiveness. Assessing the financial and economic …

[HTML][HTML] Selection of keystone species based on stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes to construct a typical food web on the shore of Xingkai Lake, China

M Xing, Q Wang, X Li, Y Li, X Zhou - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Considering the constraint of cost in conserving biodiversity, conservation resources need to
be primarily allocated to keystone species. The structure and interaction of strength of the …

Assessing evidence on the impacts of nature-based interventions for climate change mitigation: a systematic map of primary and secondary research from subtropical …

SH Cheng, S Costedoat, A Sigouin, GF Calistro… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background Nature-based interventions (NbIs) for climate change mitigation
include a diverse set of interventions aimed at conserving, restoring, and/or managing …