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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
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Integrated Management Effectiveness Tool (IMET)
The Integrated Management Effectiveness Tool (IMET) is a decision-support tool intended to develop the planning-monitoring-evaluation process to improve protected areas (PA) management ef...
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GBIF Data Browser
A placeholder layer to get the legend in the GBIF dataset
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Capture fishery production
Fisheries have a crucial role in feeding the global population. The global capture fisheries has increased over the last 50 years as the consumption of seafood has doubled. This has increased pressure...
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Bottom Trawling Effort on Western Africa Seagrass Habitat - Not Protected
Understanding the distribution and the pressure of human activities in marine environment is fundamental to ensure its preservation and enhance conservation strategies. Fishery is one of the most impo...
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Bottom Trawling Effort in Western Africa Seagrass in MPAs
Understanding the distribution and the pressure of human activities in marine environment is fundamental to ensure its preservation and enhance conservation strategies.Fishery is one of the most impor...
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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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Global Distribution of Seagrasses (Polygons)
Seagrass is found on all continents except Antarctica, covering roughly 0.1% of the ocean floor. However, its global extent remains inadequately mapped, with estimates varying between 160,387 km² and ...
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Global Distribution of Seagrasses (Points)
Seagrass is found on all continents except Antarctica, covering roughly 0.1% of the ocean floor. However, its global extent remains inadequately mapped, with estimates varying between 160,387 km² and ...
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Integrated Effectiveness Management Tool (IMET)
Achieving conservation goals by improving management effectiveness of protected areas: Burundi case-study
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State of the Wildlife Economy in Africa
In early March 2021, a group of researchers from the School of Wildlife Conservation (SOWC) at the African Leadership University, in collaboration with the BIOPAMA Team at the Joint Resea...
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Observing forests, preserving uniqueness
The international Day of Forests, celebrated each 21st of March, highlights the importance forest ecosystems. 
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Tropical Moist Forests - Deforestation year map
Tropical moist forests have a huge environmental value. They play an important role in biodiversity conservation, terrestrial carbon cycle, hydrological regimes, indigenous population subsistence and ...
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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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CGLS - Burnt Area Index - Monthly
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...
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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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