"An extraordinary book . A coherent, insightful, easily understood manual for designing and managing conservation projects specific to local development situations . It will become a classic reference in the years to come."
Choice
"Effective Conservation is a useful book-rich in cases illustrating how it can be done in the face of opposition and the inertia of endless growth . This is a book that belongs in every conservation practitioners' library, in grad school classes and programs, and in NGOs."
Biological Conservation
"A highly readable manual that provides a groundbreaking and time-proven formula for successful conservation projects around the world that bring together parks, people, and nature . Effective Conservation: Parks, Rewilding, and Local Development is an ideal and practical combination of instructional guide and 'how to' manual that is highly recommended for personal, professional, community, college, and university library Environmental Conservation collections."
Midwest Book Review
"Throughout, what will particularly interest field naturalists, are very brief descriptions of efforts to restore endangered species and the longer outlines of back-from-the-brink case histories . Important points are made throughout this important book, all of which are worth thinking about right now."
Canadian Field Naturalist
"Rewilding, conflict management, participation, intelligence, leadership, and the strategies, techniques, and skills not taught at university are combined with some of the best examples of effective conservation on the planet. This book is going to become, without a doubt, an essential manual for twenty-first-century conservationists."
Deli Saavedra, Regional Manager for Rewilding Europe
"There are many books on conservation calling for action that no one heeds. Effective Conservation is different. Ignacio Jiménez has spent his life on conservation's front line, making it happen and studying the success and setbacks of others. The lessons he has learned are in this invaluable guidebook to action. Please read it."
David Johns, Cofounder of Wildlands Network, of Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative, and of Conservation Biology Institute
"Effective Conservation is a practical manual for hopeful action on behalf of life on Earth-an exploration of what has worked, what has not worked, and the lessons learned from failures."
Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, President and Cofounder, Tompkins Conservation
"Ignacio Jiménez has wonderfully succeeded in distilling his vast on-the-ground conservation experience and presenting lessons for future conservation in a highly readable way. The Full Nature approach to conservation lays out a formula for successful, cooperative conservation."
Susan G. Clark, Yale University
"Effective Conservation documents, with world-wide examples, the pressing social, political, and economic dimensions of protecting and restoring the environment upon which the future of humankind depends. Everyone concerned about the relentless destruction of nature must read this profound volume about how best to confront the challenges of conserving our imperiled biological diversity."
George Schaller, author of The Year of the Gorilla, The Last Panda, and Tibet Wild
"Effective Conservation is a close-up look at modern wildlife restoration as practiced in the extraordinarily successful programs of Tompkins Conservation. The main part of the book is a practical and highly readable manual for science-based wildlife restoration skillfully written by Ignacio Jiménez and with world-wide examples. This is dramatic ground-breaking conservation. It consists of innovation, inspired motivation, on-site promotion and support despite personal loss. The clarity of the book's science is also a significant achievement in itself. In sum, it brings together fascinating science, but also personal resolution in a real-life conservation science manual."
William Conway, former Director and President of Wildlife Conservation Society
