Monitoring Policy for the ESA
The Endangered Species Act is considered one of the strongest acts in the world for protecting wildlife, but its effectiveness depends on proper implementation. Despite the importance of ensuring proper implementation, the agencies that implement the …
Novel data show expert wildlife agencies are important to endangered species protection
To protect biodiversity, conservation laws should be evaluated and improved using data. We provide a comprehensive assessment of how a key provision of the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) is implemented: consultation to ensure federal actions do …
conservationist.io
Conservationists need a platform with tools tailored to our needs, like Microsoft Office and Google's GSuite that provide platforms for creating content. The Center for Conservation Innovation is building conservationist.io to provide just that …
ESA Listings by Taxonomic Group
The US Fish and Wildlife Service has been developing a new web service to make their data more accessible. This is a basic test of that real-time FWS data feed.
ESA Funding Infographic
The goals of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) are to prevent extinction and recover species, but these goals can only be met if the law is fully funded. Unfortunately, Congress has appropriated only a small portion of what scientists say is needed …
Monitoring
Monitoring is essential to effective and efficient conservation: we need to know the effects of our actions on wildlife, from the benefits of actions to recover species to the consequences of authorizing harm. Under a law like the U.S. Endangered …
Missing, delayed, and old: The status of ESA recovery plans
Recovery planning is an essential part of implementing the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA), but conservationists and government agencies recognize challenges with the current planning process. Using data from all U.S. domestic and transboundary …
Implementation
Conservation only happens when laws, policies, and planning is actually carried out. After the planning stage, we set to work carrying out the actions wildlife need completed for conservation to work. That may be as broad as implementing the …
Automated habitat change detection methods using satellite data to improve conservation law implementation.
A significant limitation in biodiversity conservation has been the effective implementation of laws and regulations that protect species habitats from degradation. Flexible, efficient, and effective monitoring and enforcement methods are needed to …