Useful Resources for Engaging Partners
Useful Resources for Identifying and Engaging Partners (Step 2)
- Teaming With Wildlife’s Best Practices for State Wildlife Action Plans
- U.S. Forest Service’s Partnership Guide
- The Nature Conservancy’s guidance on engaging partners and stakeholders in setting conservation priorities
- CorridorDesign highlights some key lessons learned on engaging stakeholders in developing wildlife corridors
- World Wildlife Fund’s partnership guidance
If your connectivity assessment is intended to address more theoretical questions, such as historical patterns of gene flow across a species’ range, it may not be critical to engage partners or stakeholders. In situations where the assessment is not going to be directly used to inform on-the-ground management or conservation actions, but rather to improve scientific understanding of a species or a landscape, partners and stakeholders may not be immediately relevant.