For example, when considering whether to accept a donation of a property, a conservation organisation must determine whether an adequate endowment is available to fund future management activities.
Professor Alan Gange, head of the department of biological sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London, says: "Actually doing something, for example joining a national society or volunteering for a conservation organisation, tells me that students have a passion".
The International Crane Foundation, a conservation organisation located in Baraboo, Wisconsin, began a captive breeding programme with three pairs of wild brolga captured in Australia in 1972.
Or an endowment might be raised by a conservation organisation to pay for running costs.
What is less obvious is why a conservation organisation would take on the work of a health NGO.
Across the world, at least 200m people go on pilgrimage every year, according to the Alliance of Religions and Conservation, a British-based organisation which is currently holding a meeting in Norway to consolidate the work of the Green Pilgrimage Network.
Ariel Brunner, the head of EU policy for Birdlife, a conservation organisation disputed Turmes and de Jaeger's arguments head on.
African Parks, a conservation organisation that recently reintroduced lions to Rwanda, intends to transport between five and 10 black rhinos to the Zakouma national park in Chad next year.
Based on interviews with 63 people who graduated between 2007 and 2011, the analysis found that less than half (32) had been employed by a conservation organisation.
So it is not a black and white situation". Ariel Brunner, the head of EU policy for Birdlife, a conservation organisation disputed Turmes and de Jaeger's arguments head on.
