Here you will find links to tools commonly used for evaluating the success different aspects of conservation work, including:

assessing strategies, indicators and monitoring (conservation management and ecology and natural resources), and information management.

These tools are external links and files. Clicking on the name will take you to a Gateway landing page with a brief description of the tool and a url hyperlink.

Assessing Strategies

• Cambridge Conservation Forum Project Evaluation Tool
• Conservation Action Planning Self-Audit Tool
• Conservation Action Planning Tracking Tool
• Conservation Audit Process
• Conservation Project Database (ConPro)
• Miradi Adaptive Management Software
• Viability, Management, Threat (VMT) Analysis Tool

Indicators and monitoring

Conservation Management

• Biodiversity Support Program Toolbox
• How is your MPA doing?
• Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT)
• Rapid Assessment and Prioritisation of Protected Area Management (RAPPAM) Tool
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Financial Sustainability Scorecard Tool
• World Commission on Protected Areas Effectiveness Tool
• World Database on Protected Areas Management Effectiveness Tool

Ecology and Natural Resources

• Centre for Conservation Evidence
• Google Correlate Data Analysis Tool
• Guidance for Choosing a Sampling Design for Environmental Data
• Landscape Toolbox: Rangeland Assessment and Monitoring Tool
• NADA for R library package for the R environment for graphics and statistics
• Natural Capital Project Toolbox
• Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Wildlife Monitoring Tools
• R: language and environment for statistical computing and graphics
• Sample size calculators: Creative Research Systems Sample Size Calculator; Sound Science Sample Size Excel Tool
• Sustainable Land Management Impact Monitoring Tool
• USGS Natural Resources Monitoring Partnership
• Western Center for Monitoring and Assessment of Freshwater Resources Toolbox
• USGS Maps, Imagery and Publications
• Statisticians without borders

Information Management

• Ecosystem-based Management (EBM) Tools Database
• Google Refine
• IUCN Species Survival Commission Specialist Groups
• The Nature Conservancy's Expertise Application (TEA)
• The Nature Conservancy's Spatial Data Resources