Key Biodiversity Areas

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

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

Explore KBA data with our enhanced Site and Map Search!🔍

📍Search KBAs by name or ID
🗺️Alternate between topographic and satellite map
➡️Swap between Site and Map tools without losing filters
📄Access site factsheets—now with a map view available

💻 https://t.co/ngUkdkyQmI

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

Trees are essential for life on Earth.🌳🌍

💡 The Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) is dedicated to safeguarding the Earth's most irreplaceable trees, unique species whose presence has helped qualify countless KBAs.

👉 Discover more: https://t.co/WGkGjkD1DB

#WorldTreeDay

[Key Biodiversity Areas @KeyBiodiversity]

💡 📢 Free online course: Using KBAs to Improve Implementation of the KMGBF

➡️ You will learn how integrating KBAs into national planning can help countries deliver on six priority KMGBF targets and much more!

Enrol today: https://t.co/FP2AO3Fz9h

[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 contributing to the identification of KBAs worldwide.

Join our community today: 🌐 https://t.co/wk1JzQz4zX

[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