Protection Levels of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) by country

In which countries are the sites that most contribute to global biodiversity persistence located and how well are these sites covered by protected areas in each country? Safeguarding the Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) is vital for halting the decline in biodiversity and for ensuring the long term and sustainable use ofterrestrial and marine natural resources. The establishment of protected areas in the locations where these KBAs are found is one of the priority actions to safeguard their conservation values. The KBA-related indicators contribute to measuring progress towards Aichi Target 11 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and are also part of the suite of indicators adopted to assess progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 15 (life on land).

Indicator unit: Number of KBAs in each country.

Area of interest: Number of KBAs completely covered by protected areas (PAs), partially covered by PAs, and with no coverage by PAs in each country

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Data Uploaded by Luca Battistella using the Digital Observatory for Protected Areas Services (2022)

Response (Policies and Goals/Targets)
Target 11 on Protected Areas
Goal 14. Protect marine ecosystems
Goal 15. Protect terrestrial ecosystems
Target 12 on threatened species
Technical Reference/Fact Sheet
DOPA Factsheet
Source
Source: Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA)
Ranking
off
Make Map Points
Off
State
natural areas, landscape, ecosystems
Add Map Layers
Key Biodiversity Areas Centroids
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Global Data

Fully protected Key Biodiversity Areas

The Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are sites that contribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity in terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments. KBAs are identified according to a set of criteria and thresholds related to taxonomic, ecological and thematic subsets of biodiversity (presence of threatened species or ecosystems, geographically restricted species, ecological integrity, etc.). The identification of a site as a KBA on the basis of these criteria and thresholds is unrelated to its legal or protection status.

https://rest-services.jrc.ec.europa.eu/services/d6dopa/dopa_42/get_dopa_country_all_inds?format=json
iso3
iso3
{"name":"Country ", "show": true, "nameLocation": "middle", "nameGap": 80, "type":"category", "data":"country_name"}
{"name":"Number of Key Biodiversity Areas", "nameLocation": "middle", "nameGap": 80, "type":"value", "data":"kba_n_fully_prot"}
{"name":"Number of Key Biodiversity Areas", "type":"bar", "bp_count":"Number of Key Biodiversity Areas", "data":"kba_n_tot"}
{"name":"Number of Key Biodiversity Areas partially protected ", "type":"bar", "bp_count":"Number of Key Biodiversity Areas partially protected ", "data":"kba_n_partially_prot"}
{"name":"Number of Key Biodiversity Areas fully protected ", "type":"bar", "bp_count":"Number of Key Biodiversity Areas fully protected ", "data":"kba_n_fully_prot"}
Descending
No
REST
5
Natural Breaks (Jenks)
diverging-4
National Data

Total Number of Key Biodiversity Areas

The Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are sites that contribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity in terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments. KBAs are identified according to a set of criteria and thresholds related to taxonomic, ecological and thematic subsets of biodiversity (presence of threatened species or ecosystems, geographically restricted species, ecological integrity, etc.). The identification of a site as a KBA on the basis of these criteria and thresholds is unrelated to its legal or protection status.

https://rest-services.jrc.ec.europa.eu/services/d6dopa/dopa_42/get_dopa_country_all_inds?format=json&country_code=NUM
{"name":"Country ", "show": true, "nameLocation": "middle", "nameGap": 80, "type":"category", "data":"country_name"}
{"name":"kba_n_tot", "nameLocation": "middle", "nameGap": 80, "type":"value", "data":"kba_n_tot"}
{"name":"Total Number of Key Biodiversity Areas", "type":"bar", "bp_count":"Total Number of Key Biodiversity Areas", "data":"kba_n_tot"}
{"name":"Number of Fully protected Key Biodiversity Areas", "type":"bar", "bp_count":"Number of Fully protected Key Biodiversity Areas", "data":"kba_n_fully_prot"}
{"name":"Number of Partially protected Key Biodiversity Areas", "type":"bar", "bp_count":"Number of Partially protected Key Biodiversity Areas", "data":"kba_n_partially_prot"}
Descending
No
REST
un_m49
Natural Breaks (Jenks)
Topic
Conservation
X