Helping people meet their economic needs, dealing with local and foreign demands for biological resources, and addressing diverse and conflicting values are all part of a project manager's complex equation. Solutions to the problems of conserving biodiversity often aren't apparent at the outset. If they appear so, beware. Time could prove you wrong. Because of so many unknowns, conservation activities have an experimental dimension.
Monitoring is the essential link in understanding cause and effect.
Monitoring is about effectiveness. Monitoring what does and doesn't work and responding immediately to new insights are critical because we can't afford to wait until all the data are in.