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Important Marine Mammal Areas (IMMAs)
The IUCN IMMA layer identifies specific habitat areas crucial for one or more marine mammal species, which may be suitable for conservation through delineation and management. IMMAs represent regions ...
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New hopes from the brink of the extinction
The number of African rhinos is increasing despite poaching. By the end of 2022, it is estimated that there were 23,290 rhinos in Africa, a 5.2% increase compared to 2021. However, at lea...
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Saving the Rarest
In this StoryMap, we aim to raise awareness about gorilla conservation and their distribution across countries. Despite a long history of conservation efforts, the two species and their r...
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Protected Areas Dynamics in Africa
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...
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JRC Map of Forest Cover for year 2020
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...
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Engaging communities in land planning
Participatory approaches for better decision making that benefits the biodiversity, the climate and the people.
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Life Cycle Thinking for our food
Exploring the environmental impacts of food consumption with the example of African cocoa.
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More than paper parks
The effective protection of coastal and marine ecosystems
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Nature: an economic asset
The facets of an African economy based on wildlife resources
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Global Distribution of Coral Reefs
Warm-water coral reefs are the most biodiverse of marine habitats and the most important ecosystem engineers found in the marine environment. Most of this diversity is not due to the corals themselves...
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Terrestrial Ecoregions
The RESOLVE Ecoregions dataset, updated in 2017, offers a depiction of the 846 terrestrial ecoregions that represent our planet.
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Protected Areas
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...
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Land Fragmentation
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...
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Total Carbon
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...
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Forest Loss
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...
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