Latest in Mongabay's conservation effectiveness series, please have a look and leave a comment if you have anything to add, or subtract ~
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/experience-or-evidence-how-do-big-conservation-ngos-make-decisions/ - *Scientists have been urging conservation NGOs to make decisions based on scientific evidence.* - *However, the big conservation NGOs run into many problems in trying to use the available science. Doing impact evaluations of their own projects is also hard and expensive, sources from the big conservation NGOs say.* - *For their work to be effective, the conservation community needs to develop a common understanding of what credible evidence means, how to best use different strands of evidence, and how organizations can evaluate their work and create evidence that others can use, experts across the conservation spectrum seem to agree.* ...and please share with your colleagues, would be great to hear from lots of people about this. Erik Mongabay -- See my latest writing and photojournalism projects here <http://www.erikhoffner.com/> *tw: @erikhoffner <https://twitter.com/ErikHoffner>*
