After announcing the Chico Mendes Prize at the end of 2021, we present the shortlisted articles for this year’s Chico Mendes Prize – awarded to the best Practice Insights article published by an early career practitioner – based on the first two volumes of the journal.

The Chico Mendes Prize is awarded every two years to celebrate and honour the work of on-the-ground practitioners and those who work on the interface between academia and practice.

The winner will be selected in the coming weeks and will be announced with the other early career prize winners across the BES journals.

This year’s shortlisted candidates are:

Using phenology data to improve control of invasive plant species: A case study on Midway Atoll NWR – Wieteke Holthuijzen

Enabling conditions for the implementation and conservation outcomes of a private nature reserve – Alexandro Leverkus

Stakeholders engagement as an important step for the long-term monitoring of wild ungulate populations – João Carvalho