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Guidance, tools and information for improving the practice of conservation
Conservation by Design helps conservation practitioners determine what to conserve, opportunities to conserve it, what strategies to use and how effective they have been. The Conservation by Design Gateway provides guidance, tools, resources and case studies that support the approach and methods within Conservation by Design. The Gateway offers opportunities to participate in discussion and submit content to enhance the resources.
These tools are available for all those who wish to effect conservation change in their countries or communities. National governments, state agencies and other non-profit conservation groups can use and adapt this conservation approach to plan for and carry out their own conservation projects, resulting in conservation on a large scale.
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Conservation by Design:
An integrated and adaptive approach
 Conservation by Design provides an integrated approach that establishes conservation goals, guides actions, and directs resources to gain the greatest conservation results. It is an iterative and adaptive approach that operates at multiple scales, from local to global, and has been successfully employed in a diversity of geographic and cultural settings.
The basic concepts of Conservation by Design are reflected in each of three key analytical methods, which include Major Habitat Assessment (see global science), Ecoregional Assessment and Conservation Action Planning. In general, Major Habitat and Ecoregional Assessments focus on setting goals and priorities, Conservation Action Planning focuses on developing and implementing strategies to address the priorities and achieve the goals, and all three methods incorporate aspects of measuring results. In addition to serving as the Conservancy’s strategic framework for mission success, Conservation by Design also supports the protected area management goals of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
This approach and the methods to implement it allow the practitioner community to share experience and learning across geographies and to improve our conservation practices over time. Visit nature.org/cbd for more information on Conservation by Design, or download the publication.
The Conservation by Design brochure is also available in Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese.
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What's New
Gateway content on Marine Conservation Planning and Strategies now availalble in one place. (April 08)
New Conservation Measures section. (April 08)
Newly Released: Miradi Download software and find support (April 08)
Watch an audio-visual presentation introducing the Gateway, ConPro and EAST (Dec 07)
Conservation Networks Unit now online. (Sept 07)
Just released: Ecoregional Status Measures V 1.0 (Aug 07)
The CAP Handbook is now available for download in its entirety or by chapter in the CAP Toolbox (June 07)
New content on Fire and Conservation (May 07)
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