Conservation at the scale and precision we are attempting cannot be done by a single discipline. The science requires people who understand how landscapes function at the level of individual species and individual land parcels. The community engagement requires people who understand what motivates a ranching family, how to build trust in a community that has heard promises before, and how to design a process that produces answers rather than assumptions. Every role in this team was selected not for convenience but for necessity - because the gap it fills is real, and because without it, another part of the project cannot function.

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The connectivity modelling informs the property analytics. The property analytics inform the community engagement. The community engagement informs the PES design. The PES design informs the reforestation targeting. Each person on this team owns a specific part of that chain and is accountable for it working. This is not a collection of parallel workstreams that happen to share a name. It is a single linked sequence where each step depends on the one before it.