Conservation Measures Case StudiesThis page shares stories by field practitioners implementing conservation measures. Here you will find both written and oral stories. We have uploaded several podcasts of presentations given at the 2009 Conservation Measures Summit. You will hear presenters share thier stories about how they have developed and implemented conservation measures programs and used results to course correct implementation activities. Podcasts may take 10 to 20 seconds to load. Podcasts  The Nature Conservancy Indonesia program examined several conservation strategies (nationally protected areas, sustainable forestry, orangutan habitat management, community protected areas) to see which is the most effective at decreasing the rate of land cover conversion in Borneo's highly threatened East Kalimantan forests. Remote sensing analysis compared rates of land cover change in conservation areas to control areas with similar biodiversity and threat levels. This presentation includes preliminary results and a discussion of the costs and benefits of different monitoring techniques.
 Most Nature Conservancy projects measure the effectiveness of their project at the scale of the project itself. The Global Freshwater Team has the daunting challenge of evaluating the effectiveness of their strategies at the scale of individual demonstration projects, across all the sites in which they work, and at the global scale. This presentation describes the types of measures the Freshwater Team tracks to actively manage and assess the effectiveness of each demonstration project and the types of cross-site syntheses of strategy effectiveness they are undertaking to evaluate the effectiveness of their strategies at large.
 The Nature Conservancy Illinois Chapter used active adaptive management to assess whether their conservation strategies focused on freshwater conservation in the Mackinaw River watershed were having the intended effect. Agricultural Best Management Practices (BMPs) are known to reduce harmful run-off into river systems, but comparing one “treatment” sub-watershed in the headwaters of the Mackinaw River to an adjacent control sub-watershed showed that these BMPs were not having a tangible impact on water quality within the watershed. This presentation demonstrates how the Illinois Chapter learned from their monitoring results and improved their conservation strategies and effectiveness.
 Measures are a core component of the success of the Nature Conservancy’s Long Island Chapter’s efforts to restore hard shell clam populations and the ecosystem services provided by clams in Great South Bay. They defined a measurable objective and collected baseline data, began seeding the area with clams, and scientifically evaluated the effectiveness of their restoration efforts. Their data has helped them manage the project adaptively; more importantly, the documentation of their success has spawned interest in restoration projects in the adjacent areas and in ecosystem-based management of marine resources statewide.
Documents by Peter Nebel, Volunteer, The Nature Conservancy in Virginia and Maria Lemke, Scientist, The Nature Conservancy Illinois Chapter The Nature Conservancy Illinois chapter used active adaptive management to scientifically test whether the standard conservation best management practices were really having an impact on freshwater biodiversity.
. by Peter Nebel, Volunteer, The Nature Conservancy in Virginia A regional monitoring effort led by The Nature Conservancy’s Latin American Region and partners provided evidence that marine protected areas in the Mesoamerican Reef are having a tangible positive effect on fish populations.
by Seth Wilmore, Volunteer, The Nature Conservancy in Virginia and Alexandra Wilke, Scientist, Virginia Coast Reserve - The Nature Conservancy in Virginia Scientists and conservation managers work closely together on Virginia’s Eastern Shore to make sure that decisions about The Nature Conservancy’s work to preserve and restore shorebird habitat are informed by the best possible data.
by Seth Wilmore, Volunteer, The Nature Conservancy in Virginia, Cheryl Millett, Biologist, Lake Wales Ridge, Florida and Kristina Serbesoff-King, Scientist, Florida Chapter The Florida chapter of The Nature Conservancy takes to the air to provide an early warning system to prevent the spread of invasive Lygodium species on private land.
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