Conservation Evidence – supporting practitioners to do more of what works and less of what doesn’t

Dr Rebecca Smith, Conservation Evidence Manager, writes: Does helping toads across roads actually help increase their populations, or using different coloured tree guards improve the survival of newly planted trees? Conservation actions are often not as good as they need to be to protect and restore species and habitats because information about which actions work (or don’t) is not used by those deciding what to do. This is for several reasons including that existing evidence is often not...