Minimum goals should be set for specific conservation outcomes

– not just con­ser­va­tion activ­i­ties, but note the state­ment above about the tem­po­ral scale of projects aimed at achiev­ing sys­temic change, and that in some cas­es the con­ser­va­tion out­come state­ment will be stat­ed as a pol­i­cy out­come. Teams also find it use­ful to have inter­me­di­ate results or activ­i­ty mea­sures to be able to adapt and refine the project over time.