Marxan Planning Platform
Marxan is an open-source decision-support tool that guides land, freshwater, and ocean conservation planning. It balances biodiversity goals with social, cultural, and economic needs, offering data-driven support for governments and practitioners designing effective global conservation strategies.
Subject Tags
- Conservation Planning
- Climate resilience
About
Marxan is a suite of open-source decision-support tools that help structure, design and evaluate spatial planning projects for land, freshwater and ocean conservation. Marxan helps decision-making by balancing objectives such as protecting biodiversity and the benefits it provides to people, with socio-economic, cultural and political realities. As the analytic engine behind major planning projects, such as the Great Barrier Reef’s Rezoning Plan and Mongolia’s National Protected Area portfolio, Marxan leads the world in providing robust and flexible systematic decision-support to governments, practitioners and planners around the world.
Media Contacts
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Center for Resilient Conservation Science
The Nature Conservancy