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Biodiversity & Forest

Objectives: 

  1. The regional Centres of Excellence (RCoEs) become a reference point for updated information, able to influence policy decisions in the respective regions on forestry and biodiversity, contributing to the regional and global agendas.
  2. Cross-sectoral and cross-regional coordination and strategic steering of RCoEs will be improved to address the Science, Technology and Innovations challenges related to Africa green transition. 

Location: Eastern Africa, Western Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa 
Duration: 54 months (Central Africa); 48 months (Eastern Africa); 48 months (Western Africa) 
Budget: €7 million (Central Africa); €6 million (Eastern Africa); €8 million (Western Africa) 
Lead Organisation: CIFOR-ICRAF
JRC Thematic Unit

Regional Centres of Excellence:
Eastern and Southern African Regional Centre for Mapping Resources for Development (RCMRD)
Western Africa: Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE)
Central Africa: Observatoire des forets d’Afrique Centrale (OFAC):

Protected Areas Governance and Equity
Protected Area Dashboard
Protected Area Management Effectiveness
Sharing Spatial Data on Protected Areas
BIOPAMA Analytics
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Species Richness - Birds
Africa’s extraordinary richness in biodiversity and ecosystem services comprises a strategic asset for sustainable development. Yet the decline and loss of biodiversity hampers the sustainable social ...
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Copernicus Global Land Cover 2019
Whether you’re monitoring crops, modelling green energy installations or soil sealing, combatting loss of natural resources or just helping countries meet their Sustainable Development Goals, chances ...
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Land Cover Change (1995-2015)
Land cover is defined as the physical material at the surface of the earth, usually documented via the interpretation of earth observations. Common land cover types include trees, grass, bare ground, ...
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Above Ground Carbon
The CO2 fixed by photosynthesis is one of the most important components of the carbon cycle. Forests play a key role in this process. They represent large and persistent carbon sinks. Tree carbon stoc...
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Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs)
Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are the most important places in the world for species and their habitats. Faced with a global environmental crisis we need to focus our collective efforts on conserving ...
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Species occurrences reported to the GBIF
The availability and quantity of observational species occurrence records have greatly increased due to technological advancements and the rise of online portals, such as the Global Biodiversity Infor...
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Active Fire anomaly from MODIS/FIRMS
Vegetation fires have become a major concern in Africa because of their negative impacts on the environment and on human welfare. Uncontrolled (and un-prescribed) wildfires cause forest and vegetation...
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Coral Reef Shoreline Protection Index
This dataset is an index that estimates the relative value provided by coral reefs that protect coastlines through reduction of wave height and wave energy. The value as of 2014 is modelled as a funct...
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Forest canopy height
Forest canopy height measures the average height of the tree canopy in 2012. This dataset is created by integrating broadscale optical remotely sensed data at 30-metre spatial resolution with on-the-g...
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Species Richness - Corals
Africa’s extraordinary richness in biodiversity and ecosystem services comprises a strategic asset for sustainable development. Yet the decline and loss of biodiversity hampers the sustainable social ...
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Biodiversity Intactness Index
The Biodiversity Intactness Index shows the modelled average abundance of originally-present species in a grid cell, as a percentage, relative to their abundance in an intact ecosystem. Originally ava...
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Change In Aboveground Woody Carbon Density 2003-2014
The data provided here are the result of a time-series analysis of carbon density change (in Mg/ha) between 2003-2014 spanning tropical America, Africa, and Asia (23.45 N lat.-23.45 S lat.). The origi...
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Freshwater Global 200
The Global 200 is the list of ecoregions identified by WWF, the global conservation organization, as priorities for conservation. According to WWF, an ecoregion is defined as a "relatively large unit ...
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Endemic Bird Areas
Displays areas where the geographic range of two or more endemic bird species overlaps. While many bird species are widespread, over 2,500 are endemic and restricted to an area smaller than 5 million ...
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Natural World Heritage sites
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of natural heritage around the world considered to be o...
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