Achieving biodiversity through evidence, not just good intentions.

Recently Evidence Soup got a shout out from Conservation Finance, a blog by Lars Smith. He focuses on the considerable difficulties of achieving evidence-based resource management and public policy: "Good intentions are not enough. We need business models that are financially, institutionally and technically viable, based on evidence, and provide incentives to encourage biodiversity conservation."

One recent post noted the data-quality challenges that can interfere with systematic review, one of the holy grails of evidence-based practice. He concludes that "...it is clear that without far better monitoring schemes in place it is still impossible to provide a systematic evaluation of how different strategies are best suited to different conservation challenges."