Testing a novel approach for synthesising the evidence of the effectiveness of conservation interventions

大量的努力和资金被用于确定各种干预措施的生态后果，这导致了大量的文献。然而，研究表明，从业者很少使用这种文献时，决策，以实施干预。此外，在保护实践中，许多公认的信念实际上是不正确的。科学成果传统上发表在学术期刊上。然而，从业人员往往很难从中提取相关信息。主要的问题是，大多数从业者没有访问Web of Science或等效的科学搜索引擎，它往往是很难有针对性的保护措施的搜索，而不产生大量的不相关的标题，许多从业者没有培训，从学术论文中提取的保护信息。循证医学已经彻底改变了医疗实践，因为证据的收集，审查和传播现在是大多数医疗实践的基础。我们认为，保护将受益于类似的革命，并建议以证据为基础的保护应该成为一个标准的方法。在这个模型中，我们设想从业者可以轻松获得文献摘要，他们将监测一些证据薄弱或模糊的干预措施的有效性，如果有许多研究与一个问题有关，将进行综述和Meta分析，并将有概要总结主要干预措施的证据。这项建议旨在提供一个开放存取的数据库，其中包含大多数与保护干预措施对鸟类的影响有关的论文。综合各种干预措施的结果将是一项关键产出。要充分利用这些产出，还需要改变养护方法。参与鸟类保护的所有主要组织的参与（国际鸟盟--由100多个国家和全球鸟类保护组织、英国鸟类学信托基金会、联合自然保护委员会、自然英格兰、皇家鸟类保护协会、苏格兰自然遗产和世界保护监测中心）将确保该项目是由从业者所要求的，但也将确保其结果将在英国和国际上广泛使用。将通过在联合王国、非洲和亚洲举办的讲习班提供关于使用循证保护的培训，并将通过在联合王国和国际会议上设立展台来促进这项工作。长期目标是改变全球保护实践，使影响生物多样性的决定经常基于科学文献。我们期望，我们可以在这个项目的工作和经验的基础上，扩大它，包括与广泛的其他组织合作的所有主要方面的保护，使决策中使用的证据成为标准做法。

Considerable effort and money has been devoted to determining the ecological consequences of a wide range of interventions, which has resulted in an extensive literature. However, research shows that practitioners only rarely use this literature when making decisions as to which intervention to implement. Furthermore, many accepted beliefs in conservation practice are actually incorrect. Scientific results are traditionally published in academic journals. However, it is often difficult for practitioners to extract the pertinent information from these. The major problems are that most practitioners do not have access to the Web of Science or equivalent scientific search engines, it is often difficult to target the search for conservation interventions without producing vast numbers of irrelevent titles and many practitioners do not have the training to extract the conservation message from academic papers. Evidence-based medicine has revolutionised medical practice in that the collection, review, and dissemination of the evidence now underpins most medical practice. We suggest that conservation would benefit from a similar revolution and propose that evidence-based conservation should become a standard approach. In this model we envisage practitioners having easy access to summaries of the literature, that they would monitor the effectiveness of some interventions for which the evidence is weak or ambiguous, that there would be reviews and meta analyses where there are numerous studies relating to one issue, and there would be synopses summarising the evidence for the major interventions. This proposal seeks to provide an open access database of the majority of the papers relating to the consequences for birds of conservation interventions. Syntheses of the consequences of a wide range of interventions will be a key output. Full use of the output will also require a change in approaches to conservation. The involvement of all the major organisations involved in bird conservation (BirdLife International - a partnership of over 100 national global bird conservation organisations, British Trust for Ornithology, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Natural England, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Scottish Natural Heritage and World Conservation Monitoring Centre) will both ensure that the project is as required by practitioners but will also ensure that the results will be widely used both in the UK and internationally. Training in the use of evidence-based conservation will be provided through workshops in the UK, Africa and Asia and this work will also be promoted through stands at UK and international meetings. The longer term objective is to change global conservation practice so that the decisions effecting biodiversity are routinely based upon the scientific literature. The expectation is that we can build upon the work and experience of this project to expand it to incorporate all the major aspect of conservation in collaboration with a wide range of other organisation so that the use of evidence in decision making becomes standard practice This proposal would allow us to make a substantial step forward in achieving our objective of reforming global conservation practice.