Challenge: Demand for conservation planning consultants may increase rapidly as NGOs, businesses, and governments work towards achieving and reporting on measurable biodiversity, carbon, and social impacts. However, it is sometimes hard to generate enough business to support yourself and/or your team, and differentiate yourself from other consultants offering conservation planning support. It can also sometimes be difficult to set up clients so that they are able to implement the plans after you have finished work with them.

Solution: WildTeam (a UK charity) has created a project planning approach (link) that builds on the Conservation Standards. Using the WildTeam approach, a consultant would be able to help a client create any type of conservation/restoration plan or organisational strategy. WildTeam have also created additional, complementary approaches to help teams implement, manage, adapt, and report on their plans. These approaches are used by conservation professionals across the globe, including by staff from the likes of WCS, WWF, TNC, RSPB, and hundreds of local NGOs. We expect that consultants using the WildTeam approach would be able to create higher-quality plans, engage more clients, and more effectively empower the teams they work with to implement those plans.

It should only take about 2 minutes to complete.

The closing date for this survey is the June 30th, 2023.

Your time and thoughts are much appreciated!

Data protection: This survey is being carried out by WildTeam UK (www.wildteam.org.uk). All of the data will be secured and managed according to the UK's data protection laws and regulations. Please get in touch with adam@wildteam.org.uk if you want to ask anything about this survey or how we will manage the data.