📊16,634 sites–including 106 new sites in Antarctica and the High Seas–and a total of 17,740 qualifying species are some of the highlights of the latest WDKBA update. 📰 Read more: www.keybiodiversityareas.org/en/post/iden... 🔗 Explore the dashboard: www.keybiodiversityareas.org/es/dashboard

📢 OUT NOW: The KBA Programme Annual Report 2026! 🌍📊 Celebrating 10 years since the publication of the Global KBA Standard, this landmark report highlights a decade of science, policy integration, and site-level protection worldwide. 🔗 admin.keybiodiversityareas.org/sites/defaul... #KBAs #30x30

Issue 21 of the KBA Community Newsletter is now live! 💡Learn about global and regional efforts to identify and conserve KBAs worldwide. 🌎 Discover new publications and tools to explore KBA data. 💻 🔗 Read the full newsletter: www.keybiodiversityareas.org/en/news-upda... 📸 © Eric Kilby

Fly away with the Ferruginous Duck on its fascinating journey across the African-Eurasian Flyway.🦆 Discover why protecting @keybiodiversity.bsky.social is essential for species and for preserving shared heritage that unites diverse cultures.🗺️ Read more👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2026/08...

🌿 The new KBA Monitoring Platform is now available through the World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas (WDKBA), helping users track the state of biodiversity, pressures on sites, and conservation responses over time. Discover more: www.keybiodiversityareas.org/es/post/moni...

Follow the Endangered Great Knot on its incredible journey across the East Asian-Australasian Flyway and discover more about some of the incredible Key Biodiversity Areas it depends on.🗺️

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Follow the Endangered Great Knot on its incredible journey across the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. 🗺️ Discover why protecting @keybiodiversity.bsky.social is essential for both nature and the billions of people who share this path.📍 Read the full story 👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2026/08...

Exploring KBA data with our enhanced Site and Map Search! 🔍 📍Search KBAs by name or ID 🗺️Alternate between topographic and satellite map ➡️Swap between Site and Map tools, maintaining filters applied 📄Access site factsheets—now with a map view available 💻 www.keybiodiversityareas.org/es/sites?vie...

Fly away with the Buff-breasted Sandpiper, along the Americas Flyway.🌎🐦 It makes much-needed stopovers in various @keybiodiversity.bsky.social (KBAs), providing essential ‘fuelling stations’ and refuges for this long-distance traveller. 📍🗺️ Uncover more here 👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2026/07...

Trees are essential for life on Earth.🌳🌍 💡 The Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) is dedicated to safeguarding the Earth's most irreplaceable trees, unique species whose presence has helped qualify countless KBAs. 👉 Discover more: www.keybiodiversityareas.org/post/safegua...

💡 📢 Free online course: Using KBAs to Improve Implementation of the KMGBF ➡️ You will learn how integrating KBAs into national planning can help countries deliver on six priority KMGBF targets and much more! Enrol today: bit.ly/47b3oR2

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The KBA Community: Giving voice to the most critical sites By joining our community, you will be part of a vibrant network of committed conservationists who are actively contributing to the identification of KBAs worldwide. Join our community today: 🌐 community.keybiodiversityareas.org/signup

The World Database of KBAs provides freely accessible data on +16,600 sites identified to date. This makes KBAs a useful and accessible tool for governments and conservation organisations to identify priority areas for conservation and guide the expansion of protected areas.

KBAs serve as a foundational dataset for systematic conservation planning 🌱 They help guide where national efforts should be focused and contribute especially to the #KMGBF Targets 1 (spatial planning), 2 (restoration), and 3 (30X30 planning). #KMGBF #LocalAction #ForNature

New paper from @rspbscience.bsky.social shows that 8% of Key Biodiversity Areas in regions suitable for growing oil palm have some cultivation within them, but proportional extent of oil palm is 5X greater outside KBAs. url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/httpCX2Gh4... @keybiodiversity.bsky.social

Interesting new paper exploring the utility of different metrics for identifying Key Biodiversity Areas. Suggests modifying how we treat 'distinct genetic diversity' in the criteria for identifying KBAs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @keybiodiversity.bsky.social

Comparison of metrics for identifying Key Biodiversity Areas

Achieving global biodiversity targets requires reliable identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs). The KBA Standard defines six metrics to ident…

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This #BiodiversityDay, we celebrate that Panama is moving forward to protect its most vital places for biodiversity! 🌿 By starting its national KBA assessment, Panama will help identify the sites that are most important for the persistence of species and ecosystems. 🐦 🌐 bit.ly/4uVBGRC

Panama starts KBA evaluation process

Panama’s Ministry of Environment signed a MOU with the KBA Partnership, formalising the commitment to evaluating and updating the country’s network of KBAs.

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To identify the key places for nature, we work closely with national and local governments, conservation organisations, and local groups.🌿 🤝Together, we aim to expand their KBA networks, ensuring conservation actions informed by the best available science and local knowledge.

🌍 Global goals. Local action. Shared future. The implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework happens on the ground, through the actions of people everywhere. This #BiodiversityDay, discover how local initiatives are shaping global impact. #KMGBF @unbiodiversity.bsky.social

The KBA Community: Giving voice to the most critical sites 🌎🌿 By joining our community, you will be part of a vibrant network of committed conservationists who are actively helping identify KBAs worldwide. Join us today: 🌐 community.keybiodiversityareas.org 📸 Ludawig Akwana/Pexels

KBAs are now available within the Google Earth Engine Catalogue 🌎 Google’s online platform combines access to a vast range of satellite imagery and spatial datasets with the ability for users to conduct complex, global-scale analyses. 💻 Explore: developers.google.com/earth-engine...

WDKBA: World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) - March 2026  |  Earth Engine Data Catalog  |  Google for Developers

If you are interested in accessing the KBA dataset please complete the KBA data request form which will allow access directly in GEE once approved. Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are 'sites contrib...

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Issue 20 of the KBA Community Newsletter is now live! 💡Learn about the global and regional efforts to identify and conserve KBAs. Also, discover new publications and updates on KBA designations worldwide.🌎 Read our Newsletter: 🌐 www.keybiodiversityareas.org/news-updates... 📸 Wirestock

💡Using data on >16,000 Key Biodiversity Areas and area of habitat maps for >10,000 bird species, a new study mapped and quantified the distribution of traded bird species richness, extinction risk, and range-size rarity in and adjacent to KBAs. 💻 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Prevalence of traded bird species in key biodiversity areas

The use and trade of biodiversity involve tens of thousands of species that are exploited at a range of scales, intensities, and degrees of sustainability. As a result, some are highly threatened. Ke....

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The KBA criteria focus on populations of species and their habitats or ecosystems. 🌿 💡Each ecosystem is defined by the unique collection of species it sustains. Conserving these ecosystems helps to ensure the simultaneous survival of many species. 🔗 www.keybiodiversityareas.org/contribute-y...

Criteria | Key Biodiversity Areas | Key Biodiversity Areas

KBAs are identified based on globally agreed scientific criteria ensuring sites of importance are documented, promoted and protected.

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➡️Over the last decade, we’ve been working 🌍 to ensure the most important sites for nature are identified and effectively conserved. 🌿Become a biodiversity hero and support our work to ensure all countries have a chance to pinpoint their KBAs. 🌐 bit.ly/KBAdonate

Strengthening National KBA Networks for Nature's Future | Key Biodiversity Areas | Key Biodiversity Areas

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New update of the World Database of KBAs (WDKBA)! 📢 🟢 16,601 KBAs (including 19 new and 27 reassessed) 🟢 14 countries conducted assessments and/or reassessments of their sites 🟢 86 qualifying species – most of them new to the WDKBA! Discover more🔗 wdkba.keybiodiversityareas.org

Identifying KBAs requires a global perspective on conservation.🌍 While some countries protect rare species within their borders, the KBA criteria identifies and assesses the most important populations of a species worldwide. Discover more 🔗 www.keybiodiversityareas.org/contribute-y...

If you have used the KBA Standard or are broadly familiar with it, we want to know your opinion! 💻 💡Your answers will help us make any needed revisions to the KBA Standard and confirm whether it’s fit for purpose. Answer the survey here: ➡️ form.jotform.com/260437294538...

💡KBAs are identified using a scientifically rigorous and globally agreed set of criteria that provide a clear, transparent, and consistent standard to pinpoint sites that are crucial for the long-term survival of biodiversity.🌏 🔗https://www.keybiodiversityareas.org/about-kbas/why-kbas-matter

This #WorldFrogDay, we want to highlight the amazing work our partners are doing to deliver effective conservation actions to mitigate and prevent amphibian declines worldwide. 🐸🌍

💡 📢 New free online course: Using KBAs to Improve Implementation of the KMGBF ➡️ Learn how integrating KBAs into national planning can help countries deliver on six priority GBF targets and much more! Read more: bit.ly/4s7J3oo Enrol here: bit.ly/47b3oR2 Available at @undp.org Nature for Life Hub