Achievement

Ten students from the ABS–IGERT (8 ABS Trainees and 2 ABS Associates from 3 cohorts and 5 departments in the social, biological, and veterinary sciences) collaborated on a manuscript for publication as a policy perspectives piece in the journal, Conservation Letters. The article, "Reaching toward Outward Accountability of Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations" argues for greater transparency and accountability among environmental NGOs. Using an interdisciplinary lens, the authors catalogue barriers to transparency and provide recommendations for how NGOs can improve outward accountability through increased dialogue, data sharing (including successful and unsuccessful project results), and volunteer accreditation processes. Ideas for the paper germinated in the required, team-taught course in our IGERT, Applied Biodiversity Science II.