Session 4: Conservation Optimism

Conservation Optimism

The study of environmental bright spots (i.e., “instances where science has successfully influenced policy and practice”) can be a crucial tool to help humanity navigate the current environmental challenges it is facing (Cvitanovic & Hobday 2018).

Conservation Optimism‘s mission is to empower researchers and organisations to tell these stories of conservation optimism — large and small — so as to inspire change.

Session 4 of Module 1o

In Session 4 of Module 10, you will get practical tips from the Conservation Optimism team on how to craft your messages using a solutions lens!

They will take you on a deep dive into their Positive Communication Toolkit and will help you identify and avoid the most common communication traps so that you develop solutions-based content in a range of formats.

Session 4.1: Communication Optimism

Session 4.2: Optimism Exercises

Management Planning

These GSLEP guidelines were originally designed to provide a handy toolkit to assist in the preparation of scientific, landscape level, climate smart management plans for the GSLEP landscapes in 2014.

A Toolkit for Management Planning

Tourism in Snow Leopard Habitats

This GSLEP document aims to provide a practical guide to ecologically and socially conscious tourism practices within snow leopard habitats. It is designed primarily for operators in the tourist industry but also has a potential wider audience of policy makers in conservation and economic development fields.

https://globalsnowleopard.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Eco-Tourism-Principles-web.pdf

PRISM Evaluation Toolkit

PRISM is an evaluation toolkit that helps practitioners plan and evaluate the conservation program outcomes and impacts.

https://conservationevaluation.org/

Valuation of Ecosystem Services

This GSLEP report provide the first assessment of the economic value of provisioning ecosystem services – the material goods from ecosystems – used by local people

Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Snow Leopard Landscapes of Asia

Partners Principles

A set of eight principles for building successful and ethical conservation partnerships with local communities in the habitat of a threatened species.

PARTNERS Principles

Evaluation Toolkit: Guide for Practitioners

This guide helps practitioners define relevant wellbeing outcomes and indicators and design an evaluation framework for conservation programs

https://pubs.iied.org/14667IIED/

The Snow Leopard Survival Strategy (SLSS)

The Snow Leopard Survival Strategy (SLSS) was designed to provide a clear road map for conserving the species. It is a product of the membership of the Snow Leopard Network.

Snow Leopard Survival Strategy

Global Snow Leopard Ecosystem Program

Snow Leopard Working Secretariat. 2013. Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic. An International Effort to Save the Snow Leopard and Conserve High-Mountain Ecosystems

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