The CPI mission is to:
- Identify and implement priority areas for biodiversity protection using
systematic conservation planning methods, partnering with conservation
organizations and others;
- Provide conservation planning education and training;
- Conduct research to advance the science of systematic conservation
- Make our findings available to the public
We believe conservation planning must be done within an implementation framework to be effective. Implementation strategies and tactics must be adapted to each area’s unique social systems, just as conservation planning methods must be adapted to unique biological systems.
We work with social scientists to understand a region’s governance, politics, economics, and people so we can provide conservation planning that is relevant to the implementation process. We are developing methods of stakeholder network weaving as a tool for enhancing conservation outcomes.
Conservation planning includes five stages:
1) Gathering data on the locations of biodiversity components (species,
communities, ecosystems, processes);
2) Assessing the extent to which biodiversity is represented in existing
3) Identifying additional areas needed for full biodiversity protection;
4) Implementing protection of those areas; and
5) Monitoring protected areas to assure persistence of biological diversity
(Source: Margules, C. R., and R. L. Pressey. 2000. Systematic conservation planning.
The Conservation Planning Institute is a (501(c)(3)) non-profit.
Conservation Planning Institute
Ken Vance-Borland, Executive Director
8285 NW Wynoochee Drive
Corvallis, OR 97330 USA
+1 541 231 7949
kenvb (at) consplan.net