Guest Editorial Monitoring matters: examining the potential of locally-based approaches

FINN DANIELSEN*, NEIL D. BURGESS and ANDREW BALMFORD NORDECO (Nordic Agency for Development and Ecology), Skindergade 23, DK-1159 Copenhagen, Denmark; Conservation Biology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK; Conservation Science Programme, World Wildlife Fund-USA, 1250 24th Street NW, Washington, DC, USA; Current address: Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa; *Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected]; fax: +45-33919032)