Closing Plenary: Conservation Knowledge for Conservation Impact

Drawing from other applied disciplines, the last decade has seen the advent of techniques to target conservation actions and measure genuine impacts, building from existing approaches to assessment of conservation status and trends. The closing thematic plenary for the Knowledge, Learning, Innovation, & Technology for Advancing Conservation WCC Theme will therefore explore some of the ways in which these approaches are being incorporated into conservation assessment to plan for and celebrate conservation success. Building from a plenary providing an overview of the use of counterfactual techniques to measure the real impact of conservation, the session will then focus on two panel discussions covering a range of tools and approaches designed to foster and incentivise conservation impact.