WCS-Congo > Conservation Strategies

As conservation efforts extend to larger spatial scales, the number of different land-users, jurisdictions and management regimes that play a role in biodiversity conservation and natural resource use increases significantly. WCS-Congo’s long experience at designing and implementing site-based conservation efforts at a landscape scale has shown how vital it is to build broad-based constituencies for conservation and create partnerships to ensure effective conservation.

This principle of identifying and working with appropriate partners is incorporated throughout the WCS approach to landscape conservation, from exploratory field work, to threats assessment, to situation analysis, to implementation, to measuring effectiveness. In each of our field sites our staff actively seek partnerships with government agencies, private sector companies, NGOs, and local groups whose interests and expertise complement those of WCS. By working in partnership with others we are able to maintain our focus on our core mission – wildlife conservation – yet bring to bear a much broader range of project design, implementation and monitoring skills and capabilities than we alone could muster.

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