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Catalyzing Conservation: Insights on how to scale conservation initiatives. #biodiversity #environment #nature #conservation #scale #amplification #naturebasedsolutions

We are a group of scientists and practitioners building the evidence-base needed to inform how effective biodiversity conservation and restoration initiatives can go to scale, and benefit people and nature. Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial Dr Morena Mills Logo Manini Bansal #nature #conservation #launch

✨Research out today in One Earth✨ We show that epidemiological models can accurately infer the mechanism of adoption of conservation initiatives and forecast the trajectory of uptake within populations 👉doi.org/10.1016/j.onee…

The problem: The uptake of conservation initiatives can take a variety of nonlinear shapes. This makes it difficult to tell if a project is on-track and to make decisions accordingly

Our finding: We repurpose epidemiological models to show that the shape of spread is largely determined by just two parameters: 1) The rate of social learning (spread from person to person) 2) The rate of independent learning (probability any actor adopts in any time)

Thanks a million to everyone involved in this project: Thomas Pienkowski Dr Morena Mills Carla Archibald Rebecca Weeks and others not on Twitter/X Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial Imperial College London Imperial Sciences

Finally, @h_dunning wrote an amazing plain language summary of our paper. Check that out here 👉imperial.ac.uk/news/256398/ho…

Check out new Catalyzing Conservation paper led by Matt Clark We use epidemiological models to forecast conservation scaling (with surprising accuracy in some cases). Many factors shape trends, but our approach could inform adaptive management to scaling goals 👉doi.org/10.1016/j.onee…

Check out Matt Clark new paper!