The Teaching Adaptive Management Network

Since its launch in Spring 2007, the graduate course in Adaptive Management for Conservation Projects course has been repeated annually at the University of Maryland and has been reproduced in other academic institutions including the University of California Davis, University of Florida, Virginia Tech, Organization for Tropical Studies, and Eberswalde University. To help meet the [...]

Training “Tomorrow’s Leaders” in Conservation

Interest in adaptive management training from academia is on the rise! FOS involvement in this trend has ranged from directly teaching or co-teaching courses to sharing materials with and providing advice to those interested in establishing courses on their own. Among the academic institutions paving the way in this exciting new trend are the University [...]

Online Learning with WWF

An increasing emphasis on demonstrating results across the conservation community prompted WWF to develop and implement a strong and consistent process for measuring conservation success across its global network. These efforts led to the WWF Standards for Conservation Project and Programme Management—a set of standards for doing adaptive management that draws on the CMP Open [...]

Conservation Coaches Network

In 2009, along with The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, and Greening Australia, FOS became a charter founder of the Conservation Coaches Network (CCNet). The network is the direct multi-organization successor to TNC’s Efroymson Coaches Network. CCNet’s mission is “to catalyze effective conservation across lands and waters worldwide through action planning, coaching, knowledge sharing, and [...]