A number of organisations (NCWCD, PME, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Electricity and Water) all have responsibilities for monitoring and evaluating the state of the environment in Saudi Arabia. PME, as the organisation charged with carrying out Ecological Impact Assessments is most directly responsible for monitoring impacts of development and pollution on biodiversity outside protected areas.

The National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development carries out regular monitoring of the state of biodiversity as well as consequence of management activities in all of the projected areas under its jurisdiction. Monitoring activities include:

• On-going tracking of movements of re-introduced populations of Arabian oryx and gazelles in the 'Uruq Bani Ma'arid and Mahazat As Sayd Protected Areas and houbara bustard in Mahazat As Sayd
• Monthly or quarterly counts of animals in Mahazat As Sayd, 'Uruq Bani Ma'arid and the Ibex Reserve Protected Areas
• Annual tagging, counts monitoring of breeding of turtles in the Gulf and Red Sea
• Monthly or quarterly monitoring of rangeland condition in the protected areas where oryx, gazelles and houbara bustards have been re-introduced,monthly monitoring of small carnivores and their prey species in Saja/ Umm ar Rimth Protected Area
• Annual monitoring of birds (especially vultures)
• Monitoring of gazelle populations in the Farasan Islands and in the Harrat al Harrah Protected Areas on an approximately biennial basis.