Conservation tools The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species assesses risk of species extinction. The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems assesses risk of ecosystem collapse. The IUCN World Heritage Outlook assesses World Heritage sites over time. The World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas assesses sites important for biodiversity.

1. Conservation Tools

3. Conservation tools
One of IUCN’s key objectives is to share the knowledge gathered by its unique global community of 10,000+ scientists.
IUCN's knowledge products consist of conservation databases and tools which have already proved helpful to hundreds of
organizations.
Conservation databases
Access directly Species, Protected Areas, Key Biodiversity Areas, Law, and Ecosystem databases:
 The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species assesses risk of species extinction
 The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems assesses risk of ecosystem collapse
 The IUCN World Heritage Outlook assesses World Heritage sites over time
 The World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas assesses sites important for biodiversity
 Protected Planet assesses protected areas
 ECOLEX provides a gateway to environmental law
 PANORAMA provides practical solutions for sustainable development

4. More Conservation tools
IUCN and its partners have collaborated to create the following tools to advance conservation in a variety of areas.
Forests:
•InfoFLR - Forest Landscape Restoration resource
•Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM)
Protected areas sites:
•BIOPAMA Reference Information System

5. The IUCN Red List is used by institutional, business and community users such
as:
• National and international government agencies
• Wildlife departments
• Conservation-related non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
• Natural resource planners
• Educational organisations
• Zoos and aquariums
• Students
• Media
• The business community
Who uses the
Red List?

6. How is the Red List used ?
IUCN Red List data are used for a variety of purposes:
 International agreements use IUCN Red List data to guide decision making and as an indicator of the
status of nature. These include, but are not limited to agreements such as CITES, the Ramsar
Convention, UN Sustainable Development Goals and CBD Aichi Targets
 World Bank Group Performance Standard PS6 uses The IUCN Red List Index to minimise the risk to
biodiversity from large-scale infrastructure and natural resource extraction projects
 Government agencies rely on IUCN Red List data to guide policies such as National Parks regulations
 Zoos use The IUCN Red List Categories to educate the public about species' status
 Scientists use IUCN Red List data as a primary data source in their analyses and publications
 Teachers and students use IUCN Red List data in college projects
 Journalists use IUCN Red List data to inform their articles

7. The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems is a global standard for how we assess
the conservation status of ecosystems. It is applicable at local, national,
regional and global levels. It is based on a set of rules, or criteria, for
performing evidence-based, scientific assessments of the risk of
ecosystem collapse, as measured by reductions in geographical
distribution or degradation of the key processes and components of
ecosystems
IUCN Red List of Ecosystems
IUCN Red List of Ecosystems : www.iucnrle.org

8. IUCN’s World Heritage Outlook is the first global
assessment of natural World Heritage. By assessing every
natural site on the World Heritage List, it recognises
success and supports the role of these sites in
demonstrating excellence. It identifies the actions needed
to support sites that are facing threats to improve their
conservation outlook. It also highlights the benefits that
these sites provide to people, and projects supporting these
exceptional places.
IUCN World Heritage Outlook
IUCN Red List of Ecosystems : www.iucnrle.org

9. The World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas™ hosts data on Key
Biodiversity Areas (KBAs). This database can support strategic
decisions on protected areas by governments or civil society
towards achieving Aichi Biodiversity Targets. It also guides the
identification of sites under international conventions and in the
setting of private sector policies and standards.
World Database of Key
Biodiversity Areas
www.keybiodiversityareas.org
The database is managed by the KBA Partnership, which comprises 13 partners and is served by the KBA
secretariat hosted jointly by Bird Life International and IUCN.

10. KBA Partners:
The KBA Partnership comprises 13 partners:
BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/
IUCN https://www.iucn.org/
American Bird Conservancy https://abcbirds.org/
Amphibian Survival Alliance http://www.amphibians.org/
Conservation International http://www.conservation.org/Pages/default.aspx
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund http://www.cepf.net/Pages/default.aspx
Global Environment Facility https://www.thegef.org/gef/
Global Wildlife Conservation http://globalwildlife.org/
NatureServe http://www.natureserve.org/
Rainforest Trust https://www.rainforesttrust.org/
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds http://www.rspb.org.uk/
WWF http://www.panda.org
Wildlife Conservation Society https://www.wcs.org/

11. What is the KBA Partnership?

12. Protected Planet is the online visual interface for the World
Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), a joint project of IUCN and
UNEP. It is the most comprehensive global database on terrestrial
and marine protected areas based on data that has been compiled
since 1981 working with governments and NGOs. The visual
interface reconciles governmental, expert and general public
opinions on protected areas.
Protected planet
www.protectedplanet.net/

13. ECOLEX has been designed to be the most comprehensive global
source of information on national and international environmental
law. It is a web-based environmental law information service,
operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP since 2001. It is a
platform that synergizes information on environmental law
collected through FAOLEX (FAO), ELIS (IUCN) and InforMEA
(UNEP).
ECOLEX - the gateway to
environmental law
www.ecolex.org

14. PANORAMA - Solutions for a
Healthy Planet
www.ecolex.org
PANORAMA promotes inspiring, replicable solutions across a
range of conservation and development topics and makes
them available to anyone looking to improve the impact of
their conservation and sustainable development efforts.
The PANORAMA web platform features more than 500 well-curated case studies from around the
world.
It is complemented by a range of mechanisms and tools, including peer exchange events and
communication products.

15. PANORAMA users and benefits:
Solution providers
•Representatives of conservation and development NGOs
•Multilateral organizations
•Government agencies
•Academia, private sector and institutions
•Local and regional conservation actors
Solution seekers
•Conservation practitioners, planners and advocates
•Policy makers, donor agencies and programme
developers
•Businesses and investors
•Academic institutions
•Journalists
PANORAMA is a joint initiative of seven leading
conservation and development organizations:

16. InfoFLR
www.infoflr.org
InfoFLR is your first stop for news, resources and updates on
forest landscape restoration (FLR) around the world. This
web platform is presented by IUCN with the support of the
German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature
Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Norway's
International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI), and
UKaid from the UK government, and is a part of IUCN's
contribution to the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape
Restoration.

18. Restoration Opportunities Assessment
Methodology (ROAM)
www.forestlandscaperestoration.org
The Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology
(ROAM), produced by IUCN and the World Resources
Institute, provides a flexible and affordable framework
approach for countries to rapidly identify and analyse forest
landscape restoration (FLR) potential and locate specific
areas of opportunity at a national or sub-national level. The
ROAM methodology was created in 2014.

20. BIOPAMA Reference Information System
http://rris.biopama.org/
The BIOPAMA (Biodiversity and Protected Areas
Management) Reference Information System (RIS) is an
online information system, bringing together relevant
information to support decision-making for the protection
and management of protected areas in Africa, Caribbean and
Pacific countries.
It is a tool developed under the IUCN - Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
partnership for the BIOPAMA programme.
The BIOPAMA Reference Information System (RIS) was created in 2014.
The BIOPAMA RIS is based on the use of open source software and the Internet.