ConserveOnline and Fortaleza: Sharing Conservation Success and Failure on the Internet

Jonathan Adams, The Nature Conservancy
Carrie Brugger
Yi-Lun Ding
Marlon Flores

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-00352-060107

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Abstract

ConserveOnline and Fortaleza are Internet libraries of conservation science, practice, and institutional development. Open to anyone with relevant conservation data or experience, these libraries are designed to foster sharing successes and failures across a broad community of conservation practitioners, from academic researchers to conservation organizations to government agencies. The partners in these efforts, who include The Nature Conservancy, the Society for Conservation Biology, and NatureServe, as well as non-governmental organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean, hope to use the strengths of Internet communication to foster organizations that learn and adapt, and to build on the wealth of accumulated experience by providing accessible and easy-to-use tools.

Key words

conservation practitioners, ConserveOnline, Fortaleza, internet, knowledge sharing, learning, library

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