Examining critical assumptions in global conservation practice.

ABSTRACT: The ability of conservation practitioners to design and implement successful conservation projects and scale up positive outcomes depends in large part on their ability to make accurate assumptions about the social and ecological contexts in which their projects operate. To understand the types of assumptions characterizing conservation practice and strategy, we examined 300 assumptions identified by conservation practitioners in project workshops at The Nature Conservancy, a large environmental nongovernmental organization, as being critical to the success of their conservation projects. We identified 7 conservation assumption themes (public attitudes and perceptions; capacity and resources; economic and behavioral factors; government, politics, and policy; impacts and scalability; knowle

SUBMITTER: Opatovsky K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12658941 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature