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What's Happening

By admin on 11/5/2006 | Keyword(s): Conservation action planning; Webpage

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• Journal Articles, etc.
• Sample CAPs
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What's Happening
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Making CAP Spatial (April 2009)
Draft Guidance now online. Please read and review and provide feedback to jfisher@tnc.org as we work to develop guidance on this important innovation in Conservation Action Planning.
ConPro is now public (Oct 2008)
The Conservation Project Database is now available to the public and has new spatial features. Visit http://conpro.tnc.org/.
CAP Coaches Rally (Oct 2008)
Proceedings, materials and other information from the Efroymson Coaches Rally 2008 are now available.
CAP on the radio (May 2008)
Listen to an audio report on the CAP process for the Maya Mountains Marine Corridor in Belize. Download audio file.
Miradi Adaptive Management Software (April 2008)
Miradi is a user-friendly program that allows nature conservation practitioners to design, manage, monitor, and learn from their projects to more effectively meet their conservation goals. Software available at miradi.org. Support, tutorials and further information can be found in the Miradi Conserveonline workspace.
Examples of CAP Brochures (October 2007)
We now have several examples of brief glossy brochures designed to share the results of the CAP process with a broader audience. View examples from Hawaii and the Lower Missouri River on our Practical Tools page under Basic Practice 10: Analyze, Adapt, Learn and Share.

These examples are also available along with guidance on sharing the results of your CAP in the CAP Toolbox.
List of Exemplary CAPs (July 2007)
Many of you have requested a list of well executed Conservation Action Plans in order to learn from these CAPs. We surveyed the community of CAP Coaches to compile this list for you. The spreadsheet contains basic project information, a point of contact and the rationale for why this CAP was nominted as exemplary. We also provide a link to the ConPro datapack for this project (currently only available to TNC staff). View the list of Exemplary CAPs.
CAP Workbook Tutorial (September 2007)
This animated, narrated online tutorial is probably the best resource for acquiring a comprehensive understanding of how to use the CAP Excel workbook! All CAP workbook users – both beginners and pros – will learn a lot from this tutorial!
This tutorial covers all features that apply generally across the workbook (getting started, workbook setup, toolbars and general menu options), and detailed guidance for all of the worksheets.
To view the tutorial, click here – CAP Workbook Tutorial.
(Alternatively, you can download a zipped copy of the CAP Workbook tutorial. Please note, however, that this is a very large file! You will need a fast internet connection. To download, click here. Be sure to select Save, not Open, and download the 188MB file to your computer. Then double-click the "player.html" file.)
Contact Warren Lockwood, wlockwood@tnc.org, if you have any questions about the workbook or the tutorial.

ConPro
TNC’s Conservation Project Database is now available! The Conservancy’s Global Conservation Approach Team has been working with Technology Information Services to create a Conservation Project database (ConPro), a searchable web database containing core information from TNC and partners’ conservation projects around the world. Its primary purpose is to promote discovery of effective conservation solutions through improved cross-project learning. Powerful search utilities allow practitioners to rapidly locate projects addressing similar issues such as types of biodiversity, threats, or the strategies being implemented. The content reflects the application of TNC and partner organizations’ Conservation Action Planning (CAP) process and comes from the CAP Excel Workbook Tool, the Conservation Project Inventory (CPI) database, or direct online entry into ConPro. Click here to download a flash movie demo of ConPro.

Motagua Valley, Guatemala CAP article
Download a recent paper summarizing the Motagua Valley CAP in Guatemala. Check out the great maps and photos!

Herndon Workshop Products
In May 2001, an impressive gathering of 70 experts gathered in Herndon, Virginia to identify key ecological attributes, indicators, and "minimum integrity thresholds" that reflect acceptable ranges of variation for a number of ecological systems in Latin America. We finally tracked down the results and made them available online. Download the complete draft report or a specific chapter.

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