Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Conservation Lens- Q1

The Conservation Lens
Examining conservation challenges from your perspective

To begin the conversations and prepare ourselves for the Biodiversity in a Rapidly Changing World conference in December, the NCSE conference team will pose a new conservation relevant question each week. We encourage you to share your thoughts and opinions in reaction to our question as well as the responses left by others.

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Q1: How do we evaluate results from conservation actions and science programs- how do we measure success?
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leave your thoughts by clicking "comment" below

2 comments:

NCSE Conference said...

What do you think?!
Let us know!

Anonymous said...

The valid way would be to have randomly picked sites for remediation and remediate half or more and use the un-remediated sites as controls.
We probably do not have enough money to remediate all sites anyway. The only question in my mind is if it is morally correct to not choose the sites for remediation that we think are most likely to be successful. Such a choice might invalidate our experimental model. I would eventually perhaps decide on a 'best practices' approach which only needed evaluation as a valid approach at some acceptable interval and have 'faith' that it is the only way to go in between.