Ensuring effective conservation management is seldom an easy task. One proven strategy is to identify "best practices" and then adapt and disseminate these practices to other locales. This form of prototyping is a way of introducing innovation and learning into the management system through small-scale, systematic trials. This method harvests the lessons of experience, evaluates them, and distributes them to a wide audience. People then can adapt best practices to their local situation, and thereby improve management in an ongoing way. This is adaptive management in its truest form.

This site will compile information on best management practices.

If you are involved in the management of big game migrations, and believe you have identified a "best practice", please share your story with us here.

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