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Our three biodiversity indicators quantitatively track the conservation status of individual species across three important dimensions: habitat loss, protected area coverage, and data collection. We leverage in-situ biodiversity data, remote sensing layers, and advanced computational workflows to scale these calculations up to thousands of species around the globe and aggregate species scores into national and sub-national indices for all countries.

The Global Biodiversity Framework has made bold commitments to meeting biodiversity conservation targets by 2030. Our indicators, adopted by the official Monitoring Framework, are designed to aid countries and conservation stakeholders in monitoring biodiversity by representing individual species at national scales to inform decision-making.

species habitat index

Where are species losing or gaining habitat?

The Species Habitat Index, or SHI, assesses the integrity of ecosystems through their component parts: species. By combining annual remote sensing layers with species occurrence data and habitat preferences, we pinpoint the areas where a species has gained or lost habitat over time. The resulting habitat scores reveal which species are facing the most severe habitat change since 2001.
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Vertebrate SPECIES
A row of white taxa icons: a turtle, a frog, a raptor, a bear, and a snake.

Click the species below to explore their habitat scores

Kispál Attila, CC BY-SA 4.0
89.1 Species Habitat Score
A color ramp indicating that red areas on the map represent habitat loss, blue areas represent stable habitat, and yellow areas represent habitat gain.
Jason Thompson, CC BY 2.0
91.9 Species Habitat Score
A color ramp indicating that red areas on the map represent habitat loss, blue areas represent stable habitat, and yellow areas represent habitat gain.
Toni Fish, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
66.5 Species Habitat Score
A color ramp indicating that red areas on the map represent habitat loss, blue areas represent stable habitat, and yellow areas represent habitat gain.

species protection index

species information index

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