About Conservation Portal
A shelf for the things conservationists already rely on, and cannot easily find.
The tools exist. Grant databases, species registers, camera-trap platforms, ranger toolkits, job boards, reporting systems. What the sector has never had is one place to put them, so most conservationists find them by accident, late, or never.
Conservation Portal holds 559 resources across 42 categories.
Why the sector needs a shelf
Conservation is not badly organized because anyone is careless. It is thousands of small groups, most of them underfunded, most working on something nobody else has time for. In the field that shape is a strength. Everywhere else it costs the sector dearly: a frog project in Ecuador and a funder in London can spend a decade on the same species and never learn the other exists.
So whose job is it to fix that? Nobody is paid to. The Biodiversity Group keeps doing it anyway, because we keep hitting the same wall as everyone else, and we would rather build the missing thing once than work around it forever.
What else we build
Conservation Portal is one of several. Each one started as a gap we kept falling into.
- Connect & Conserve maps roughly 8,500 conservation organizations: who works where, on what, and with how much money. The Red List tells you what is threatened. It does not tell you who is working on it, or whether anyone is at all.
- The Species Black List covers the vertebrates the Red List records as Data Deficient or has never assessed, and ranks which of them are most likely to be in real trouble. A daily feed follows the ones that turn up again after years of silence.
- The conservation conference list carries over 200 conferences through 2028 with dates and locations, checked by hand, because the sites that aggregate them automatically will happily republish an event that does not exist.
- The Biodiversity Library and Ask Darwin put two thousand reference books and a searchable research library within reach of people who cannot buy either.
A rising tide lifts all boats
None of this is competitive and none of it is a funnel. We give it away because we are one of the small groups it helps, and because a sector that can see itself wastes far less of the money it already has.
Conservation is one of the few fields where a rising tide really does lift every boat. Every hour a project does not spend hunting for a grant database, a species record or a collaborator is an hour it spends on the animal instead. We would rather build the shelf than watch another good project quietly run out of road for want of something that already existed.
Something missing?
Most likely, yes. If you know a resource that belongs here, or find a link that has died since it was checked, send it over.
Help keep it going
Conservation Portal is free, has no advertising and asks nothing of you. It is paid for by The Biodiversity Group, a 501(c)(3) working on the species most conservation funding overlooks, and by people who donate to it.
A donation funds the fieldwork, and it funds the unglamorous hours that keep lists like this one honest: opening every link, chasing the ones that died, and writing down what a resource actually does.