The Biodiversity and Forests thematic action lies in the recognition of African ecosystems as vital providers of essential services to humanity and critical components of the planet's intricate system. Sustainable management of ecosystem resources passes through knowledge-based, concerted, and coordinated efforts at the global, national and regional level. Many challenges are faced in this quest for sustainability, in particular:
Closing the gap: Research predominantly originates from the North, leaving Southern research centers underdeveloped.
Strengthening excellence: Existing African centers of excellence require substantial investments to enhance their capacity.
Enhancing collaboration: Sharing knowledge within the scientific community, with practitioners, and policymakers remains insufficient.
The Biodiversity and Forest thematic action supports the consolidation and long-term sustainability of initiatives aimed at leveraging data, information, and capacity building for decision-making. From global to local scales, aims to track progress towards conservation targets, creating and managing data and information for informed decision-making.
Protected areas in Africa play a critical role in biodiversity conservation, supporting livelihoods, and mitigating climate change. This tool offers a comprehensive analysis of the dynami...
The Copernicus Global Land Service - Burnt Area products depict burn scars, surfaces which have been sufficiently affected by fire to display significant changes in the vegetation cover (destruction o...
The EC JRC global map of forest cover provides a spatially explicit representation of forest presence and absence for the year 2020 at 10m spatial resolution.The year 2020 corresponds to the cut-off d...
A hybrid transition map is available at a resolution of 10m for the period from 1990 to 2022. This beta version combines the recently updated TMF map for the year 2022, derived from Landsat images at ...
Forests worldwide are in a state of flux, with accelerating losses in some regions and gains in others. Given the recognized importance of forest ecosystem services, quantification of global forest ex...
Forests worldwide are in a state of flux, with accelerating losses in some regions and gains in others. Given the recognized importance of forest ecosystem services, quantification of global forest ex...
Forests worldwide are in a state of flux, with accelerating losses in some regions and gains in others. Given the recognized importance of forest ecosystem services, quantification of global forest ex...
Carbon storage in biomass (biological material) is a key link in the global carbon cycle, and consequently for climate change mitigation. Forests in particular are an important carbon sink that help r...
Habitat fragmentation occurs when natural habitat is broken up by non-natural land uses. For this layer, land fragmentation is expressed as the Natural Land Cover Pattern Index (NLPI), which classifie...
Protected areas have long played a crucial role in protecting natural landscapes and wildlife, and many consider them to be one of the most effective tools in protecting biodiversity. The Internationa...
Some areas in Africa represent spectacular, still viable examples of Africa’s wildlife and wild places. They are of such outstanding importance and value that they should be conserved at all costs and...
