Protected Area Management can be used to monitor protected area operations, streamline analysis and reporting, and improve patrol coordination.
Protected areas require ongoing stewardship to balance conservation goals with public access, safety, and day‑to‑day operations. Organizations must track boundaries, infrastructure, and on‑the‑ground conditions, incorporate data captured by rangers on patrol, and coordinate staff and partners across large and often remote landscapes.
Many organizations rely on spreadsheets, paper records, or disconnected and siloed systems to manage protected lands. Antiquated systems make it difficult to maintain authoritative data, respond quickly to issues observed in the field, and share consistent information across departments. Understanding the extent of a protected area, its assets, and where activities are occurring provides a single, authoritative view of an area. It also reveals spatial patterns across protected areas, improves coordination, and helps protected area managers make more informed decisions.
Deploy the solution
This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.
See Deploying a solution for more information.
Requirements
Protected Area Management requires the following:
- ArcGIS Online
- ArcGIS QuickCapture
- ArcGIS Survey123
Information products
Protected Area Management includes the following information products:
| Item | Description | Minimum user type |
|---|---|---|
Human Activity Dashboard | An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by managers to generate dynamic human‑activity reports within protected areas | Viewer |
Patrol Dashboard | An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by managers to create dynamic patrol reports and assess patrol effectiveness | Viewer |
Priority Species Dashboard | An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by managers to create dynamic priority species reports | Viewer |
Problem Animals Dashboard | An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by managers to develop dynamic problem animal reports | Viewer |
Protected Area Analysis | An ArcGIS Experience Builder app used by analysts to run spatial analyses and create management reports that support adaptive decision‑making across protected areas | Creator |
Protected Area Center | An ArcGIS Experience Builder app used by managers to monitor real-time activity and create management reports that support adaptive decision‑making across protected areas | Viewer |
Protected Area Editor | An ArcGIS Instant Apps app used by editors to create and manage protected area data | Creator |
Protected Area Sightings | An ArcGIS Survey123 form used by managers to submit ranger sightings in the Real-time Dashboard app | Contributor |
Protected Area Patrol Coverage | An ArcGIS Notebooks app used to calculate protected area patrol coverage metrics | Creator |
Ranger Sightings | An ArcGIS QuickCapture project used by rangers to record tracks and sightings while on patrol | Mobile Worker |
Real-time Dashboard | An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by managers to monitor real‑time activity across protected areas | Contributor |
Wildlife Dashboard | An ArcGIS Dashboards app used by managers to create dynamic wildlife activity reports | Viewer |
When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.
Release notes
The following are the release notes:
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 1.0 (Mar 2026) |
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