Better building management benefits greater and lesser horseshoe bats. Paper shows effective reserve management resulted in stronger bat population size increases compared with unmanaged sites. doi.org/10.52201/CEJ19… Vincent Wildlife Patrick Wright Tom Kitching
Henry Schofield

Have you tested any of these actions? Can you add to the evidence? Let us know!

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After a bit of a break from the CE blog, this week Natasha joins us to talk about the updated Marine Fish Synopsis.

From changes to nets and hooks, to deploying gear at different depths - read on to find out more!

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📷Leslie Burkhalter

A short film about what we do and why we do it. By checking and applying evidence can all help tackle the biodiversity emergency. youtube.com/embed/jdrv15Qo…

Here is some of the global team of inspiring visionary practising conservationists leading the way in effectively maintaining and restoring nature. Thanks Iolo Williams and David Attenborough for support. youtu.be/jdrv15QoUUc

📢SYNOPSIS UPDATE📢

With 27 new actions added on Fishing Catch, Capacity and Effort Reduction, it may be fair to say there's plenty more fish in the... CE synopsis on Marine Fish Conservation! 🐟🦈🐠

Check it out here:
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📷 Credit: Paul Donald

Closes next Tuesday….

New paper!
An analysis of conservation guidance documents from the UK&I found many problems, including that only 9% provide a source justifying the recommended actions.
Here we provide principles for producing evidence-based, user-friendly guidance. OA: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cs…

Just launched: a catalogue of evidence resources in conservation bit.ly/36lV44Y

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Money might not grow on trees, but have you ever wondered how much it costs to plant them?

This week Tom White discusses his new paper on reporting the costs of conservation actions.

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Awesome work by Tom White using ConservationEvidence highlighting that the 'Lack of transparency over cost of conservation projects hampers ability to prioritise funds for nature protection' Press release: shar.es/aWSC8B Paper: academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…

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The Conservation Evidence non-English language databse is here!
You can now browse over 1,300 studies in 16 languages that test conservation actions.
Huge thanks to all of the collaborators that made this work possible.
Read more here: tinyurl.com/2p89bsjw

How can we design simple but informative experiments to test conservation management actions? Can easy-to-test ideas be incorporated into existing management plans? Bill Sutherland & ConservationEvidence have the answers in new Conservation Evidence Journal editorial: doi.org/10.52201/CEJ19…

Excellent piece in the Guardian on the study showing 99.5% of pheasants for sale are shot with lead. The second of a series of annual studies on effectiveness of a five year voluntary transition to lead free. Published in Conservation Evidence Journal.
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bit.ly/CEJ_2022 Voluntary ban on lead shot announced by shooting orgs in Feb 2020 is not working.Paper out today bit.ly/CEJ19_8_14 shows similar results to last year with >99% of pheasants sampled this season killed with lead shot Prof Debbie Pain eri #LeadIsPoison

Huge thank you to all who contributed. Editorial 'Creating testable questions in practical conservation: a process and 100 questions' is out today. Why not test one? bit.ly/3sbUWgc

Evidence-based practice mug! Leads to the Evidence into Practice Toolkit.

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Collaboration is a huge part of conservation, and in this week's blog we celebrate the collaborations and collaborators who have made this project possible.

Huge thanks to all the people who have contributed over the years!

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We are closing NHBS/BES Gratis Book Scheme as an idea whose time has passed (we now produce open access books). For a blog and press release are looking for stories from people who received any of the 3,000 free copies of The Conservation Handbook or any other gratis book. Thanks