Analysis of nature conservation actions and policy

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Evidence-based conservation

<p><b>Evidence-based conservation</b> is the application of evidence in <a href="/en/Nature_conservation" title="Nature conservation" class="wl">nature conservation</a> management actions and policy making. It is defined as systematically assessing scientific information from published, <a href="/en/Peer-review" title="Peer-review" class="mw-redirect wl">peer-reviewed</a> publications and texts, practitioners' experiences, independent expert assessment, and local and <a href="/en/Indigenous_(ecology)" title="Indigenous (ecology)" class="mw-redirect wl">indigenous</a> knowledge on a specific conservation topic.  This includes assessing the current effectiveness of different management interventions, threats and emerging problems and economic factors.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="#cite_note-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span></p>

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<li><a href="/en/Metascience" title="Metascience" class="wl">Research</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Evidence-based_scheduling" title="Evidence-based scheduling" class="wl">Scheduling</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="/en/Evidence-based_nursing" title="Evidence-based nursing" class="wl">Nursing</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Evidence-based_pharmacy_in_developing_countries" title="Evidence-based pharmacy in developing countries" class="wl">Pharmacy in developing countries</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Evidence-based_toxicology" title="Evidence-based toxicology" class="wl">Toxicology</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="/en/Evidence-based_education" title="Evidence-based education" class="wl">Education</a></li>
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<li><a href="/en/Evidence-based_policing" title="Evidence-based policing" class="wl">Policing</a></li>
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<p>Evidence-based conservation was organized based on the observations that decision making in conservation was based on <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intuition" title="wikt:intuition" class="extiw" target="_blank">intuition</a> and or practitioner experience often disregarding other forms of evidence of successes and failures (e.g. scientific information). This has led to costly and poor outcomes.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-Sutherland_2-0"><a href="#cite_note-Sutherland-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[2]</span></a></span> Evidence-based conservation provides access to information that will support decision making through an evidence-based framework of "what works" in conservation.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="#cite_note-3" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[3]</span></a></span></p>

<p>The evidence-based approach to conservation is based on evidence-based practice which started in <a href="/en/Evidence-based_medicine" title="Evidence-based medicine" class="wl">medicine</a> and later spread to <a href="/en/Evidence_Based_Nursing" title="Evidence Based Nursing" class="mw-redirect wl">nursing</a>, <a href="/en/Evidence_based_education" title="Evidence based education" class="mw-redirect wl">education</a>, <a href="/en/Psychology" title="Psychology" class="wl">psychology</a> and other fields. It is part of the larger movement towards <a href="/en/Evidence-based_practices" title="Evidence-based practices" class="mw-redirect wl">evidence-based practices</a>.</p>



Evidence-based conservation is the application of evidence in nature conservation management actions and policy making. It is defined as systematically assessing scientific information from published, peer-reviewed publications and texts, practitioners' experiences, independent expert assessment, and local and indigenous knowledge on a specific conservation topic.  This includes assessing the current effectiveness of different management interventions, threats and emerging problems and economic factors. Evidence-based conservation was organized based on the observations that decision making in conservation was based on intuition and or practitioner experience often disregarding other forms of evidence of successes and failures . This has led to costly and poor outcomes. The evidence-based approach to conservation is based on evidence-based practice which started in medicine and later spread to nursing, education, psychology and other fields. It is part of the larger movement towards evidence-based practices. 