This training module has been developed by the Tasmanian Land Conservancy, the University of Tasmania, and Our Common Place as a Protected Areas Collaboration, with input from the Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania, Inland Fisheries Service and Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service. It is made up of a series of informative, evidence-based case studies that illustrate different aspects of effective conservation management.
The module is aimed at Protected Area and Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECM) management practitioners, stakeholders, students and others who are interested in learning from real-world examples.
Members of the Protected Areas Collaboration worked under the guidance of an expert working group and with input from the conservation community to develop the content of the module.
The case studies were made possible by the generosity of those involved in each of the projects who shared resources, expertise and time to showcase their stories.
Contributors are credited on individual case study pages and more detail for each of the projects can be found on the resource pages.
The content has been developed to align with the IUCN Global Register of Competences for Protected Area Practitioners (the Competency Framework) (Appleton, 2016). This allows easier connection to other IUCN-based professional development opportunities.
An important objective of this initiative is that the module and case studies be freely and publicly available. All materials in this module, except for published documents that are referenced or provided as additional resources, are licenced under CC BY-ND 4.0 (Attribution-No Derivatives 4.0 International) of the Creative Commons.
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If you wish to use or distribute any of the content in this module, please contact info@ourcommonplace.org.au.