Science Projects

• The Alliance for Conservation Evidence and Sustainability

  The Alliance for Conservation Evidence and Sustainability (ACES) is a network of conservation non-governmental organizations committed to improving conservation monitoring, evaluation, and learning. Operating as a formal collaborative between 2016 and 2022, ACES developed tools and approaches for generating, synthesizing, and using evidence to improve community-based conservation and conservation decision-making. ACES projects explored the establishment, persistence, and scaling of community-based conservation in 12 place-based learning projects, in service of catalyzing more effective, inclusive, and durable conservation outcomes.

  

• Collaborative Network for Valuing Earth Information

  Earth Observations can provide real-time, globally available, and publicly accessible information for decision-makers to track current and future natural impacts and prioritize which actions to take for their localities. Teaming up with NASA, NOAA, and USGS, WWF is working to build better understanding of the beneficial outcomes from Earth Observations and how to improve them.

• Kathryn S. Fuller Science for Nature Seminar Series

  WWF’s Science for Nature Seminars provide a regular forum for the conservation community to learn, discuss, network and inspire. The series seeks to advance the discussion of cutting edge research relating to critical topics in international conservation by featuring distinguished scientists from across the globe.

• The Natural Capital Project

  Centered at Stanford University, the Natural Capital Project is a partnership among WWF, The Nature Conservancy, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Minnesota, and Stockholm Resilience Centre. Through pioneering science, cutting-edge technology, and collaborative partnerships worldwide, the Natural Capital Project works to integrate the value nature provides to people into all major decisions.

• Wildlife Crime Technology Project

  Over four and a half years, the Google.org-funded Wildlife Crime Technology Project (WCTP) provided WWF a platform to innovate and test a number of innovative technologies, many of which have the potential to change the course of the global fight against wildlife crime.