The sheer amount of cutting-edge biodiversity content on the Africa Knowledge Platform is truly too much to list here. A good starting point would be to use custom filters to find the information you need:

• Biodiversity content can be searched under the Natural Resources thematic topic.
• Alternatively, you filter content by SDG 14: Life below Water to see the latest information from ocean and marine ecosystems; or by SDG15: Life on Land for the latest on terrestrial systems.

Among the newest latest datasets added to the platform are species richness maps for threatened sharks and rays in Africa’s coastal regions (among a collection of species data from the IUCN from land and seas); carbon stocks in vegetation litter (among a suite of datasets on the carbon stocks from various sources); and high resolution habitat maps that align with the species’ habitat requirements from the IUCN Red List.

The platform also includes deep-dive stories that present geospatial data as accessible policy-relevant narratives. While biodiversity information is featured in several narrative, it is most prominent in the following stories:

• Nature: an economic asset – which makes the case for biodiversity-based economic development in Africa
• More than paper parks – which describes efforts to improve the effectiveness of marine protected areas, particularly in the Indian Ocean.
• Engaging communities in land planning – which showcases how geospatial data can support participatory landuse planning in a way that benefits biodiversity, climate and people.
• Life Cycle Thinking for our Food – which explores the global footprint of or food consumption through a case study on the impact of cocoa consumption on deforestation in west Africa.

The partners section of the Africa Knowledge Platform provides a curated list of institutions that have collaborated with the Joint Research Centre, including key partners on the BIOPAMA project.

Finally, the Africa Knowledge Platform hosts interactive tools on Key Biodiversity Areas, areas of global importance for the persistence of biodiversity; as well eConservation, a tool for tracking financial investments in biodiversity conservation.