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Examining critical assumptions in global conservation practice.

Kendra Opatovsky¹, Brian Pentz², Philip A Loring²

¹The Agility Lab, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia, USA.

Conservation Biology : the Journal of the Society for Conservation Biology

|July 3, 2025

Summary

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Conservation success hinges on accurate assumptions about social and ecological contexts. Practitioners

Keywords:

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Area of Science:

Conservation Science
Environmental Social Science

Background:

Successful conservation project design and scaling depend on accurate contextual assumptions.
Understanding these assumptions is crucial for practitioners.

Purpose of the Study:

To identify and categorize the assumptions conservation practitioners make about their projects' social and ecological contexts.
To analyze the nature and focus of these assumptions.

Main Methods:

Examined 300 assumptions identified by practitioners at The Nature Conservancy.
Categorized assumptions into themes through workshop analysis.

Main Results:

Identified 7 key assumption themes, predominantly related to human dimensions (e.g., public attitudes, policy, resources).
Assumptions primarily focused on project-level and local issues, not root causes.
Human dimensions and broader contexts are central to conservation assumptions.

Conclusions:

Conservation teams should systematically address uncertainty and assumptions about broader contexts.
Focusing on axiomatic assumptions can improve project design and adaptive learning.
Insights can enhance conservation project success, especially for people-centered approaches.