This step helps you identify the various factors that immediately affect your project’s focal targets and then rank them, so you can concentrate your conservation actions where they are most needed. Specific questions that this step answers include:

• “What threats are affecting our targets?”
• “Which threats are more of a problem?”

Coaches' Resources

• Key Points: Stresses & Sources. The Search for Critical Threats
• Generic List of Potential Stresses
• Generic List of Potential Sources
• IUCN-CMP Unified Classifications of Direct Threats and Conservation Actions
• Threat Ranking System
• Format for Documenting Threat Assessment Notes
• Threat Maps
• Criterios para el Análisis de Amenazas (Presiones y Fuentes) en los Estándares Abiertos