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Every good conservation resource, on one shelf
The tools you need already exist. Grant databases, species registers, camera‑trap platforms, ranger toolkits, job boards. What the sector has never had is a shelf to put them on, so most conservationists find them by accident, late, or never.
This is the shelf. 558 resources in 41 categories, each one opened and checked by hand.
Species and status
4 categories · 70 resources
Taxon specialist networks
The people who assess and act on a single group, from bees to bats to fungi.
33 resourcesSpecies and taxonomy databases
Names, threat status, distributions and the records behind them.
15 resourcesLost species and rediscovery
Species nobody has confirmed alive in years, the lists that name them, and where a rediscovery gets reported.
7 resourcesZoos and ex-situ
Studbooks, husbandry manuals, seed banks and coordinated breeding programs.
Recording and data
7 categories · 150 resources
Occurrence and monitoring platforms
The infrastructure you build a survey on: observation platforms, camera-trap pipelines, tracking repositories and sound libraries.
31 resourcesCitizen science recording projects
Individual schemes you send records to, by taxon and by country. Most want a photograph and five minutes.
27 resourcesIncident and threat reporting
Where to report a problem rather than a sighting: roadkill, strandings, poisoning, invasives and lost fishing gear.
22 resourcesBioblitzes and awareness days
Fixed-window events you can join, or host your own chapter of.
24 resourcesSpatial data and mapping
Protected areas, land cover, forest change and the layers to build on.
19 resourcesAnalytical methods and modeling tools
Software for viability, connectivity, occupancy, camera traps and acoustics.
16 resourcesConservation technology and field equipment
Recorders, tags, triggers, dogs, and the community that builds them.
Threats and response
6 categories · 40 resources
Invasive species and biosecurity
Registers, risk data and horizon scanning for introduced species.
8 resourcesWildlife health and disease
Surveillance, diagnostics, forensics and outbreak reporting for wild populations.
17 resourcesWildlife trade, crime and enforcement
Trade records, seizure data, investigations and ranger tools.
3 resourcesHuman-wildlife conflict and coexistence
Protecting livestock and crops, designing compensation, and defusing the politics.
2 resourcesInfrastructure and wildlife
Roads, crossings and the collisions that come with them.
4 resourcesClimate adaptation for species and sites
Scoring what is vulnerable, then building the answer into a project.
Land, sea and recovery
5 categories · 43 resources
Reintroduction and conservation translocation
Whether to move animals at all, and the guidelines for doing it without harm.
6 resourcesEcological restoration and rewilding
Standards and networks for putting habitat back, at any scale.
3 resourcesProtected area management and ranger welfare
Managing a protected area well, and looking after the people who patrol it.
3 resourcesIndigenous and community-led conservation
Territories of life, the communities that hold them, and how recognition works.
28 resourcesConservation tourism
Turning visitors into conservation revenue without turning wildlife into a prop.
Rules and planning
3 categories · 30 resources
International treaties and policy
The agreements that set the targets, and the trackers that follow them.
4 resourcesPermits, ethics and genetic resources
Nagoya, CITES paperwork and the approvals a field project needs before it starts.
16 resourcesPlanning, evaluation and practice
Frameworks for designing a project and finding out whether it worked.
Money and services
6 categories · 102 resources
Funding and grants
Grant databases, the funders themselves, and the networks behind them.
9 resourcesFundraising
Ways to raise money directly instead of applying for a grant: platforms, giving federations and campaign apps.
32 resourcesPrizes, awards and competitions
What you can enter or be nominated for. Check which ones take an application, because many do not.
4 resourcesBiodiversity finance mechanisms
Credits, trust funds and the newer ways money reaches nature.
21 resourcesFiscal sponsorship
Host organizations that let a project raise tax-deductible money without incorporating, and the guides for choosing one.
18 resourcesConsulting and advisory services
People and firms you can hire when a project needs strategy, evaluation, economics or a grant writer.
People
5 categories · 41 resources
Organization directories
Find the groups already working in a country, a taxon or a cause.
14 resourcesCommunities and networks
Peer groups, professional societies and skills-matching platforms.
9 resourcesJobs and careers
Where conservation jobs are actually posted.
8 resourcesVolunteering and expeditions
Placements and expeditions, including the directories that vet them.
3 resourcesField safety and remote medicine
Because the nearest hospital is nine hours away and someone has to be the medic.
Knowledge and communication
5 categories · 82 resources
Literature, evidence and data access
Journals, archives, data repositories and evidence syntheses.
16 resourcesTraining and courses
Free and low-cost courses in GIS, statistics, planning and nonprofit skills.
19 resourcesCommunication, design and outreach
Tools and partners for telling the story once you have it.
7 resourcesPositive news and recovery
Evidence that some of this works. Species recoveries, rediscoveries, and solutions reporting worth sending to a tired team.
19 resourcesBlogs, podcasts and newsletters
What to read and listen to while the fieldwork waits.