Whether an intervention is deemed to “work” depends upon how goals are defined and then measured, which is complex given that different stakeholders have very d... Conservation investment, particularly for charismatic and wide-ranging large mammal species, needs to be evidence-based. Paying for Results: The WCS Experience with Direct Incentives for Conservation", in WCS-Working-Paper: Protected-Areas-and-Human-Livelihoods. Many countries in the region are also recognized for their food insecurity and poverty, making the reconciliation of agricultural production and forest conservation a particular priority. The available evidence is sparse, with few rigorous evaluations of the environmental and social impacts of PAs and particularly of PES. We... Impact evaluation methods (mixed effects models and matching) were used to investigate the effect of protected areas (PAs) on poverty and livelihoods in Cambodia, comparing households inside PAs with bordering villages and controls. The UNFCCC mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in developing coun-tries (REDD+) represents an unprecedented opportunity for the conservation of forest biodiversity. Eld’s deer (Cervus eldi) is an endangered cervid whose range across Southeast Asia was reduced during the last century to disjoint populations in Myanmar and Cambodia. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Tom’s connections and jobs at similar companies. Comparisons between Sibulan and the other sites visited revealed that many areas of logged primary forest across the islands... Join ResearchGate to find the people and research you need to help your work. An analysis of 14 population size-distributions in natural forests shows that population structure varies across this species' range. The WCS scientists who worked on the census include Tom Clements, Nut Meng Hor, Men Soriyun, Edward Pollard, Hannah O'Kelly, and Samantha Strindberg. Addressing the Biodiversity Crisis: The Role of the Africa-EU Partnership. Tom has 3 jobs listed on their profile. Library and Archives. 2009). Wildlife Conservation Society Summary: A substantial fraction of the Earth is now legally protected from damaging human activities. We present the first published case-study of tiger conservation in I... Asian vultures have undergone dramatic declines of 90–99% in the Indian Subcontinent, as a consequence of poisoning by veterinary use of the drug diclofenac, and are at a high risk of extinction. © 2008-2021 ResearchGate GmbH. Tom Clements, WCS Indonesia | Published 2014 Access Full Text. Cambodia, Priority Research Areas for Ecosystem Services in a Changing World, Status and Conservation of Yellow-Cheeked Crested Gibbons (Nomascus gabriellae) in the Seima Biodiversity Conservation Area, Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia, An apparent hybrid wild bear from Cambodia, "Paying for Results: The WCS Experience with Direct Incentives for Conservation", in WCS-Working-Paper: Protected-Areas-and-Human-Livelihoods, Finding a needle in the haystack: Regional analysis of suitable Eld’s deer (Cervus eldi) forest in Southeast Asia, The ecology, silviculture and biogeography of mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla): A critical review of the evidence, Modelling soil series data to facilitate targeted habitat restoration: A polytomous logistic regression approach, Designing training programs for restoring wild Eld's deer populations, Monitoring of Large Waterbirds at Prek Toal, Tonle Sap Great Lake 2001 - 2007, INVENTORY OF FOREST FRAGMENTS IN THE POLILLO ISLANDS, A research agenda for ecosystem services in a changing world. Tom Clements's 4 research works with 10 citations and 2,440 reads, including: Author Correction: Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have … The use of camera traps in a non intrusive study of the butaan (Varanus olivaceus) on Polillo Island is described. From 2012 he has managed the Cambodia program for WCS and in 2014 he moved to be Regional Director of the Southeast Asia Archipelago for WCS, covering Indonesia, Malaysia and Marine. 37 Full PDFs related to this paper. Tom CLEMENTS | PhD | Wildlife Conservation Society, NY | WCS “Most people do not have a problem with the waste facility out there,” Falcon said. However a recent spike in the number of reports of the use of poisons in hunting practices suggests the need to re-evalu... Conservation practice has sometimes been criticized for relying on simplistic assumptions about social contexts in natural resource management. TRANSLINKS Case Study Bird Nest Protection Program in the Northern Plains of Cambodia Report prepared for WCS TransLinks Program Tom Clements*a, Lucy Garrettb, Ashish Johna, Omaliss Keoc, Kongkim Srengd, Pech Bunnatd, Rours Vannb, Tan Sethac, Thong Sokhab and Hugo Raineya August 2009 Launched in July 2010 as the first WCS seascape in North America, this initiative seeks to raise public awareness and take action to conserve threatened marine wildlife in the New York Bight, through conservation research, citizen science and education, and advocacy to improve management policies. The WCS scientists who worked on the census include Tom Clements, Nut Meng Hor, Men Soriyun, Edward Pollard, Hannah O'Kelly, and Samantha Strindberg. Studies Large Carnivores, Conservation Ecology, and Wildlife Biology. In forests that are in successional trans... Habitat restoration at a landscape scale is becoming increasingly important in environmental management. Regional Director of the Southeast Asia Archipelago region. Her efforts have focused on domestic and international conservation and management of large ocean fishes, and sharks in particular. Implementing any conservation intervention, including Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), in the context of weak institutions is challenging. A Wildlife Conservation Society report reveals surprisingly large populations of two globally threatened primates in a protected area in Cambodia. The impact of payments for environmental services and protected areas on local livelihoods and forest conservation in Northern Cambodia, Impacts of Protected Areas on Local Livelihoods in Cambodia, An evaluation of the effectiveness of a direct payment for biodiversity conservation: The Bird Nest Protection Program in the Northern Plains of Cambodia, Reduced Expectations: The political and institutional challenges of REDD+, Payments for biodiversity conservation in the context of weak institutions: Comparison of three programs from Cambodia, Delivering behavioural change at scale: What conservation can learn from other fields, Poisoning causing the decline in South-East Asia’s largest vulture population – CORRIGENDUM, Links between ecological integrity, emerging infectious diseases originating from wildlife, and other aspects of human health -an overview of the literature, Poisoning causing the decline in South-East Asia’s largest vulture population, “Living a good life”: Conceptualizations of well-being in a conservation context in Cambodia, Exploring trade-offs between development and conservation outcomes in Northern Cambodia, Assessing Medium-term Impacts of Conservation Interventions on Local Livelihoods in Northern Cambodia, Predicting responses to conservation interventions through scenarios: A Cambodian case study, Five challenges to reconcile agricultural land-use and forest ecosystem services in Southeast Asia, Guiding principles for evaluating the impacts of conservation interventions on human well-being, Monitoring local well-being in environmental interventions: a consideration of practical trade-offs, A tale of two villages: An investigation of conservation-driven land tenure reform in a Cambodian Protection Forest, Accounting for the Impact of Conservation on Human Well-Being: Well-Being and Conservation, Clements 2014 PA Impacts World Dev suppl materials, Evidence of Payments for Ecosystem Services as a mechanism for supporting biodiversity conservation and rural livelihoods, The Use of Passive Infrared Camera Trapping Systems in the Study of Frugivorous Monitor Lizards, Money for something? Key Issues and responses. Current New York Seascape projects include acoustic and satellite tagging of sharks to better understand their movements and habitat needs in the Mid Atlantic and development of a management plan for American eel and alewife in the Bronx River. The potential impacts of payments for environmental services (PES) and protected areas (PAs) on environmental outcomes and local livelihoods in developing countries are contentious and have been widely debated. Tom Clements, Wildlife Conservation Society, Asia Program Department, Department Member. “WCS 3-Sentence Science” is a regular tip-sheet — in bite sized helpings — of some of this published work. Join ResearchGate to contact this researcher and connect with your scientific community. In each of the two study villages, we investigated how household land use had changed and the extent of compliance with both legal boundaries of titled areas and community... Descriptions of the study sites and interventions (Appendices S1 and S2); survey design and impact evaluation methods, including the balancing statistics and tests for the covariate matching (Appendices S3-S7); methods used to assess deforestation rates (Appendices S8 and S9) and the deforestation analyses (Appendices S10 and S11); changes in house... Conservationists are increasingly engaging with the concept of human well-being to improve the design and evaluation of their interventions. Another $59.3 million has gone to the state. Understanding the conditions under which cooperation can emerge has important implications for the design of resource management and wildlife conservation interventions.... Land-use change, primarily through tropical forest loss and degradation, is estimated to contribute between 6–17% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (van der Werf et al. Developing interventions to change human behaviour at scale is critical to achieving the new Global Biodiversity Framework goals. Another $59.3 million has gone to the state. The use of camera traps in the study of living frugivorous monitor lizards is advantageous because the animals are highly susceptible to disturbance and spend very little time on the ground. Since the convening of the influential Sarkozy Commission in 2009, development researchers have been refining conceptualizations and frameworks to understand and measure human well-being and are starting to co... Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) represent a mechanism for promoting sustainable management of ecosystem services, and can also be useful for supporting rural development. Poisoning causing the decline in South-East Asia’s largest vulture population – CORRIGENDUM - ROBIN LOVERIDGE, GERARD EDWARD RYAN, SUM PHEARUN, OLIVER GRAY-READ, SIMON P. MAHOOD, ALISTAIR MOULD, STEFAN HARRISON, RACHEL CROUTHERS, SOK KO, TOM CLEMENTS, JONATHAN C. EAMES, MATHIEU PRUVOT. WCS has paid $13.4 million in fees to Andrews County since 2012. Measures of socio-economic impacts of conservation interventions have largely been restricted to externally defined indicators focused on income, which do not reflect people's priorities. Within the field of environmental management and conservation, the concept of well-being is starting to gain traction in monitoring the socio-economic and cultural impact of interventions on local people. This paper. WCS's goal is to conserve the world's largest wild places in 16 priority regions, home to more than 50% of the world's biodiversity. “With continued investment, these critical populations can survive and grow.” Case study details provided by Tom Clements, WCS, 2005 and 2007 An experiment with direct incentives for conser-vation hails from the WCS Office in Cambodia, at Preah Vihear. 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