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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
Documents
WDPA Version Tracker

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Endemic 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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Threatened Endemic Species Richness - Mammals
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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Litter Carbon
The Dead Wood Carbon and Litter Carbon pools have been estimated at global level as constant fractions of ESA Biomass CCI Above Ground Biomass (AGB), v.3 (2018) using a lookup table based on global ec...
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Endemic Species Richness - Sharks and Rays
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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Ecosystem Condition Risk
Ecosystem condition indicates whether the natural environment is intact and connected. Poor ecosystem condition can result in businesses having restricted access in the long-term to the quantity and q...
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Biodiversity Physical Risk
Physical Risk is driven by the ways in which a business depends on nature and can be affected by both natural and human-induced conditions of land- and seascapes. It comprises the risk categories: 1) ...
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Forest Canopy Loss
This indicator measures forest canopy loss. Land- and sea-use change is the major human influence on habitats. Habitat loss is one of the biggest threats to biodiversity and is the number one reason s...
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Tourism Attractiveness
This indicator measures the availability of natural and cultural resources. Some industries, such as tourism, real estate and education, can depend highly on the presence of touristic valuable land or...
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African development corridors and their impact on Protected Areas
The African Development Corridors published by Thorn, J.P.R., Bignoli, D.J., Mwangi, B. et al. The African Development Corridors Database: a new tool to assess the impacts of infrastructure investment...
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