What We Do
Helping you develop a conservation strategy
Our planning process enables participants to produce meaningful and practical management recommendations that generate political and social support for conservation action
Our workshops create a collaborative, science-driven environment where governments, organizations, conservationists, and others interested in species conservation come together to solve complex challenges. We provide an objective environment, expert knowledge, and thoughtful group facilitation. Rapid distribution of the planning recommendations allows them to be used almost immediately to influence stakeholders and decision-makers
“Five or ten years down the road, everyone involved would look back on this meeting and see it as a turning point in the conservation of this endangered beetle. Ten years later that prediction is holding true.”
-Bob Merz, Director of the Center for American Burying Beetle Conservation at the Saint Louis Zoo
We Offer Planning Processes in
Develop conservation strategies and action plans for one or more species.
Develop recommendations for which species would benefit from ex situ management, and developing plans for realising those benefits.
Use a structured, evidence-based approach to understand wildlife health issues, identify key wildlife diseases, and develop effective management responses.
Collaborate with species experts and managers to build realistic simulation models of the extinction process for wildlife populations threatened by human activities, and test alternative strategies designed for population growth and viability.
We also offer courses on these processes
Facilitating a Species Planning Workshop
Ex Situ Conservation Assessment
Wildlife Disease Risk Analysis
Black-footed ferrets were nearly extinct in the 1960s. Starting in the 1980s, CPSG conducted multiple planning workshops for them. Today, 300-400 live in the wild, the result of a massive reintroduction effort and the work of many conservation partners.