Conservation Evidence, a new website, is a free, authoritative information resource designed to support decisions about how to maintain and restore global biodiversity.
Here you will find summarised evidence from scientific literature about the effects of conservation interventions such as methods of habitat or species management. Expert panels are then asked to assess the effectiveness (or not) of interventions, based on the summarised evidence.
The idea is to give conservationists easy access to the latest and most relevant knowledge to support their conservation policy or management decisions. Simply search for your species, habitat or issue of interest. The site will present you with a list of possible actions you could take, along with a plain English summary of the available evidence for whether each one is effective (or not). It will also provide expert assessment of the effectiveness, based on the summarised evidence.
Recommendations are not made on the site, because it is difficult to give evidence-based conservation advice that is appropriate for every context. Instead, it provides evidence and an assessment of that evidence, which should be interpreted by conservationists who understand their own site and national or regional situation.
Conservation Evidence is based at the University of Cambridge, UK, with collaborators and advisers in all continents of the world. The project was conceived by William J. Sutherland and is managed by Rebecca K Smith.
