FLARE Network Webinar Series

Dear Colleagues:

We are excited to invite you to the first in a series of FLARE Network webinars. The goal of this series is to bring researchers, policymakers, and practitioners together to advance understanding and action around timely topics at the intersection of forests and livelihoods globally. This webinar will showcase recent research assessing the long-term impacts of conservation funding, with case studies from Bhutan, Madagascar, and Peru. The work was carried out by an interdisciplinary group of scholars led by FLARE Coordinator Daniel Miller and Jana Diesner from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), previously University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.

Webinar Title: Conservation legacies: New methods, evidence, and directions in conservation impact assessment

Date and Time: Thursday, December 11, 2025 | 9:00–10:30 EST (15:00–16:30 CET)

Organizers: Technical University of Munich (TUM) and University of Notre Dame (ND) with funding support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. 

Speakers: 

Jana Diesner, Technical University of Munich (Germany)

Daniel Miller, FLARE/University of Notre Dame (USA)

Jeremy Brooks, Ohio State University (USA)

Johanna Eklund, University of Helsinki (Finland)

Katia Nakamura, FLARE/University of Notre Dame (USA)

Shadi Rezapour, Drexel University (USA)

Sonam Wangyel Wang, Bhutan Institute of Himalayan Studies/Korea University (Bhutan/South Korea)

Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek, South Dakota State University (USA)

Agenda:

• Welcome and Introduction
• Methods 
  • Qualitative attribution methods for conservation impact assessment
  • Data Science advances for conservation impact assessment
• Country Case Study Results
  • Bhutan
  • Madagascar
  • Peru
  • Cross-cutting lessons on conservation funding impacts over the long term
• Discussion and Q&A
• Outlook and Session Close

Please feel free to share this invitation widely with your colleagues.

Thank you and best regards,

FLARE Network Secretariat

Photo: Gregoire Dubois, licensed under: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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