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6) Key Biodiversity Areas: KBA Prioritization and The Alliance for Zero Extinction
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Through identifying KBAs, we are able to focus on the spectrum of sites that require conservation. However, we still end up with thousands of sites worldwide. Given limited...
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5) Key Biodiversity Areas: Identifying Priority Sites
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DRAFT video: comments welcome! Protecting habitat is the most effective way to conserve the majority of species. The 5th video in our series explores the identification and...
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4) Key Biodiversity Areas: Identifying Species Priorities (The IUCN Red List)
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DRAFT video: comments welcome! The species facing the greatest risk of extinction in the near future are our first priorities for conservation. These are the species listed...
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9) Key Biodiversity Areas: Monitoring the Effectiveness of Conservation Actions
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Governments, conservation NGOs, and donor agencies spend a lot of money to protect threatened species, sites, and ecosystem processes. How do we know that we are investing...
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8) Key Biodiversity Areas: Planning and Implementing Conservation Actions
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Now that we have identified our targets and prioritized amongst them, we need to design strategies that will ensure their conservation. How do we go about doing this? The...
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7) Key Biodiversity Areas: Identifying Priority Landscapes and Seascapes
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Protecting threatened species and KBAs will take us a long way towards preventing biodiversity loss, thereby maintaining the ecosystem services upon which people depend. H...
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3) Key Biodiversity Areas: Setting Global Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation
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DRAFT video - comments welcome! All biodiversity is important, but in a world of limited resources and escalating biodiversity losses, we must act before time runs out. W...
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10) Key Biodiversity Areas: Human Wellbeing Benefits of KBAs
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DRAFT video - comments welcome! Human life depends on biodiversity. Through conserving biodiversity, we enable our own persistence on Earth. The key to mainstreaming bio...
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2) Key Biodiversity Areas: Biological Diversity
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DRAFT video - comments welcome! What is biodiversity? Why is biodiversity under threat? Are we on the brink of an extinction crisis? This second video in our series addr...
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1) Key Biodiversity Areas: Introduction
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DRAFT video - comments welcome! A brief introduction to the process outlined in the other modules on Key Biodiversity Areas, stressing the need for conservation of these s...
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About Key Biodiversity Areas
Key Biodiversity Areas, or KBAs, are sites of global significance for biodiversity conservation. In other words, they are the most important places to protect to prevent species extinction (or the loss of biodiversity). By preventing biodiversity loss, we help guarantee our own survival, since biodiversity provides us with food, clean water, shelter, medicine, clean air, and more.
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