Key Biodiversity Areas

The most significant sites for nature on the planet. 🐋🦓🦜🌱

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

The World Database of KBAs provides freely accessible data on +16,600 sites identified to date. This makes KBAs a useful and accessible tool for governments and conservation organisations to identify priority areas for conservation and guide the expansion of protected areas.

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

#KBAs serve as a foundational dataset for systematic conservation planning 🌱

They help guide where national efforts should be focused and contribute especially to the #KMGBF Targets 1 (spatial planning), 2 (restoration), and 3 (30X30 planning).

#LocalAction #ForNature

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

This #BiodiversityDay, we celebrate Panama's commitment to protect its key places for biodiversity! 🌿

By starting its national KBA assessment, Panama will help identify the sites that are most important for the persistence of species and ecosystems.🐦

🌐https://t.co/gsa94GBETH

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

To identify the key places for nature, we work closely with national and local governments, conservation organisations, and local groups.🌿

🤝Together, we aim to expand their KBA networks, ensuring conservation actions informed by the best available science and local knowledge.

[Amphibian Survival Alliance @amphibiansorg]

🚨 BIG NEWS

Panama launches its National Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) Assessment.

The @MiAmbientePma and the @KeyBiodiversity Partnership, with support from the @amphibiansorg, have signed an MoU today to launch the National KBA Assessment.

Read more: https://t.co/376JdCwZsh

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

🌍 Global goals. Local action. Shared future.

The implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework happens on the ground, through the actions of people everywhere.

This #BiodiversityDay, discover how local initiatives are shaping global impact.

#KMGBF

@UNBiodiversity

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

Why does biodiversity matter?

Because without it, we wouldn’t have clean air, water or food — and it also plays a role in our wellbeing

As #BiodiversityDay approaches, it’s a reminder that this is about everyday life 🌍

[UN Biodiversity @UNBiodiversity]

Why does biodiversity matter? 🌍
Because without it, we wouldn’t have clean air, water or food — and it also plays a role in our wellbeing.

As #BiodiversityDay approaches, explore how you can take action #ForNature ⤵️
https://t.co/XXR8sDuQT0

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

The KBA Community: Giving voice to the most critical sites 🌎🌿

By joining our community, you will be part of a vibrant network of committed conservationists who are actively helping identify KBAs worldwide.

Join us today: 🌐 https://t.co/8SriBndkSN

📸 Ludawig Akwana/Pexels

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

KBAs are now available within the Google Earth Engine Catalogue 🌎

Google’s online platform combines access to a vast range of satellite imagery and spatial datasets with the ability for users to conduct complex, global-scale analyses.

💻 Explore: https://t.co/SlfIqGjkkP

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

Issue 20 of the KBA Community Newsletter is now live!

💡Learn about the global and regional efforts to identify and conserve KBAs. Also, discover new publications and updates on KBA designations worldwide.🌎

Read our Newsletter: 🌐 https://t.co/mtkrKek6pm

📸 Wirestock

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

💡Using data on >16,000 Key Biodiversity Areas and area of habitat maps for >10,000 bird species, a new study mapped and quantified the distribution of traded bird species richness, extinction risk, and range-size rarity in and adjacent to KBAs.

💻 https://t.co/T2t5yw2WSJ

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

The KBA criteria focus on populations of species and their habitats or ecosystems. 🌿

💡Each ecosystem is defined by the unique collection of species it sustains. Conserving these ecosystems helps to ensure the simultaneous survival of many species.

🔗 https://t.co/tx70S9AkwN

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

➡️Over the last decade, we’ve been working 🌍 to ensure the most important sites for nature are identified and effectively conserved.

🌿Become a biodiversity hero and support our work to ensure all countries have a chance to pinpoint their KBAs.

🌐https://t.co/gmAqQQVGyo

[American Bird Conservancy @ABCbirds]

🌍 The world’s most important places for wildlife!

A new scientific paper coauthored by ABC scientists reveals that the global network of @KeyBiodiversity Areas (KBAs) has become the most comprehensive map of critical habitats on Earth.

Read more:
https://t.co/Q5mnWcXWkf

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

New update of the World Database of KBAs (WDKBA)! 📢

🟢 16,601 KBAs (including 19 new and 27 reassessed)
🟢 14 countries conducted assessments and/or reassessments of their sites
🟢 86 qualifying species – most of them new to the WDKBA!

Disover more🔗 https://t.co/vYPpDtJzBL

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

Identifying KBAs requires a global perspective on conservation.🌍

While some countries protect rare species within their borders, the KBA criteria identifies and assesses the most important populations of a species worldwide.

Discover more 🔗 https://t.co/tx70S9AkwN

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

If you have used the KBA Standard or are broadly familiar with it, we want to know your opinion! 💻

💡Your answers will help us make any needed revisions to the KBA Standard and confirm whether it’s fit for purpose.

Answer the survey here: ➡️ https://t.co/m2CMc8jZhL

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

💡KBAs are identified using a scientifically rigorous and globally agreed set of criteria that provide a clear, transparent, and consistent standard to pinpoint sites that are crucial for the long-term survival of biodiversity worldwide. 🌏

🔗https://t.co/vPRltixvz6

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

This #WorldFrogDay, we want to highlight the amazing work our partners are doing to deliver effective conservation actions to mitigate and prevent amphibian declines worldwide. 🐸🌍

[IUCN @IUCN]

The latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ reveals that more than half of bird species globally are in decline.

The most prevalent cause of bird population declines is habitat loss and degradation.

Learn what can be done https://t.co/G0z1gDXfdl