Marine Ecological RESEARCH management aid (mermaid)
Co-developed by World Wildlife Fund and Wildlife Conservation Society, MERMAID is an open-source application that collects and manages real-time data on coral reef ecosystem health. With MERMAID, conservation practitioners input their observations straight onto the platform, manage data, and output clean data and results to inform decision-making.
elinor rapid governance assessment tool
Elinor is a new tool and data system that has been largely inspired by natural resource governance tools (such as the widely used Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool) and expanded to gather insights on equitable resource governance (inspired by the pioneering work of the late Elinor Ostrom). It has been specifically designed to be light-touch and low-cost, consisting of roughly 34 questions covering nine management and governance topics, primarily to help track changes over time, building directly on the decades of work by many organizations and thought leaders who have developed tools and methods to measure the evolving aspects of environmental governance.
global mangrove watch (GMW)
Global Mangrove Watch (GMW) is an online platform that provides the remote sensing data and tools for monitoring mangroves necessary for their conservation and protection, and ultimately for effective climate action. The official data platform of the Global Mangrove Alliance (GMA), on whose behalf we provide input to the tool, gives universal access to near real-time information on where and what changes there are to mangroves across the world, and highlights why they are valuable, including hi-res info on cover change, soil carbon, living biomass, canopy height, and other parameters. This is a tool that can help mangroves be central to climate mitigation, adaptation and sustainable development plans and policies.
Mangrove restoration tracking tool (MRTT)
The MRTT is a framework to record and track outcomes from mangrove restoration projects with a flexible structure designed to capture existing field-based data collection in a standardized format. Consisting of a pre-restoration objectives assessment and post-restoration guidance questions for holistic monitoring, evaluation, and learning, the MRTT helps provide a better understanding of how specific actions lead to conservation outcomes. An online platform for the framework is currently under development and is expected to launch in July 2022.