Conservation
Intervention Cost Data Portal

Resources to help scientists and practitioners identify and report on conservation intervention cost data and enable cost-effective conservation practice.

 

Why track and report the cost of conservation interventions?

 

Understanding the economic costs of conservation is necessary for conservation decision support and to achieve the greatest conservation outcomes in a funding limited world. However, considering how to estimate these costs is often an afterthought. There has been a recent push to develop approaches to improve how conservation scientists and practitioners collect and use conservation cost data to enable best-practice conservation decision support methods such as prioritization or return-on-investment analyses. Yet, there is still difficulty in implementing these approaches. This portal aims to summarize cutting-edge approaches to collecting and reporting on the costs of conservation interventions and to provide a centralized repository of materials that can be used to help track and report the costs of conservation interventions.

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Funding for this portal provided by the Arthur and Elaine Johnson Foundation.