1. The group discussed prioritizing deforestation alerts from Global Forest Watch by filtering them based on areas of high conservation importance for biodiversity, like key biodiversity areas, intact forests, and sites for endangered species. 2. They proposed three options - filtering by ecoregions, mapping sites of range rarity as a continuous layer, or allowing users to select layers like protected areas, tiger habitats, and ape sites. 3. Integrating biodiversity data into Global Forest Watch could help conservation groups and governments better target responses to deforestation alerts in the most critical areas for nature. However, challenges may include refining models and maps

1. GFW PARTNERSHIP MEETING
WASHINGTON, DC | FEBRUARY 8TH & 9TH
PHOTO: CIFOR #GFWPartners17

2. #GFWPartners17Presenters: Eric Dinerstein, Stuart Butchart, Neil Burgess, Samantha Hill, Andy Purvis
PARALLEL DISCUSSIONS 1:
FORESTS AND BIODIVERSITY

3. BIODIVERSITY
GFW B: A vision for
more proactive
conservation of
forest-dependent
biodiversity

4. Case studies: habitat
assessments for tigers and apes

5. The First Ever Global Summit for an
Endangered Species in St. Petersburg,
Russia, November 2010

6. Tracking changes and preventing loss in critical
tiger habitat

7. Tiger Conservation Landscapes

8. Tracking changes and preventing loss in critical
ape habitat
Jan 18 2017

10. Forest
loss in ape
habitat,
Gunung
Leuser
National
Park,
Sumatra,
Indonesia
2003 -
2014
2003 2004 2005
2007 2008 2009
2010 2012 2014

11. Nature Needs Half…but which half?
(Dinerstein et al. in press by March 2017 Bioscience)

13. A Vision for Global Forest Watch – Year One
GLAD alert filtering Integrate Range wide assessments into operational programs

15. PREDICTS BII and Range Rarity to offer a
Global Map (a continuous layer)
Impact of forest
change on
biodiversity
intactness

16. PREDICTS BII and Hotspots of Range Rarity to offer a
Global Map (a continuous layer)

17. A Vision for Global Forest Watch Years 5-10

18. Laser-guided Imaging Spectroscopy

19. Google Earth is an Ecological Lie
by Omission

20. Current
Protected Area Network
Making Plans
to Save
More
Biodiversity

22. Mapping forest biodiversity signficance
Stuart Butchart, BirdLife International

23. Manages the World Database on Key Biodiversity Areas
– information on 15,000 of the most important sites for
nature on the planet
Manages the IUCN Red List
– information on the extinction risk of 80,000 species
Manages the World Database on Protected Areas
– information on 200,000 protected areas
Developed the PREDICTS model
- Based on a global database of terrestrial species'
responses to human pressures
Developed work on revised ecoregions and their
protection status, & landscape priorities for charismatic
species (tiger and apes)
Global Forest Watch Biodiversity

24. Why integrate tree cover & loss with other
biodiversity datasets?
Reassessed the status of 11,000
forest-dependent vertebrates
Quantified threats to the largest
biodiversity site network in the world

26. www.biodiversitymapping.org based on BirdLife International and NatureServe 2016
Richness of species with
small distributions

27. Each cell scored for its aggregate contribution to the distributions of all species
occurring in the cell
Buchanan et al 2011 PloS ONE 6(12): e29080

28. Biodiversity importance of
remaining forest (2012)

29. Biodiversity importance of
remaining forest (2012)

30. Biodiversity importance of lost
forest (2000-2012)

31. Biodiversity importance of lost
forest (2000-2012)

32. Methods
• Bird, mammal and amphibian forest species ranges from BirdLife & IUCN
• Refined ranges by altitudinal limits
• Calculated areas of tree cover in each species range for 2000 and 2012
• Weighted each range as inverse of area of tree cover
• Summed weighted species ranges to create importance layers for 2000 and 2012
• Mapped remaining tree cover in 2012 using importance layer for 2012
• Mapped tree cover loss 2000-2012 using importance layer for 2000
• In future, add other taxonomic groups (e.g. reptiles, conifers, cycads, rattans,
gingers, monarchs and swallowtails by 2020)

33. What does it tell you?
• Which areas of forest loss represent the most significant losses of forest biodiversity
(in terms of their aggregate contributions to species distributions)
• Which areas of remaining forest are the most significant for biodiversity (in terms of
their contributions to species distributions)
How might it be used?
• Filtering GLAD alerts
• Informing land-use planning decisions
• Prioritising protected area expansion
• Targeting investments in forest conservation
• Screening potential business operations

36. Mapping how forest change
impacts biodiversity
Neil Burgess, Samantha Hill, Andy Purvis
PhotobyNeilPalmer(CIAT)

37. #PredictsProject
Projecting Responses of Ecological
Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems:
the PREDICTS project

38. MethodologyGlobal Forest Change
Forest loss
Forest gain
Forest cover 2000
Forest cover 2010
Pressure maps
Other pressures
Human population density
Proximity to roads
PREDICTS
model
Map of forest
change impact on
biodiversity
CSIRO downscaled
land use map
Where has
forest
been lost?
Where has
forest
been
gained?
Where forest
has been lost,
what is the land
being used for?
Other
pressures that
influence
biodiversity?
Patterns
of loss and
gain

39. Database has 767 studies, 32,078 sites,
98 countries, > 300 ecoregions
Database described in Hudson, Newbold et al. 2014 Ecol & Evol
Database is publically accessible: data.nhm.ac.uk

40. Taxonomic coverage of 51,000 species

41. Measuring site-level biodiversity
CroplandPrimary vegetation
5 species richness 4

42. Measuring site-level biodiversity
CroplandPrimary vegetation
15 abundance 14

43. Measuring site-level biodiversity
CroplandPrimary vegetation
15 abundance of original species 6
Biodiversity Intactness
Newbold et al. 2016 Science 353(6296)

44. Results

45. Results

46. Results

47. Results

48. Results

49. Biodiversity
intactness
Short-term goals:
Refine models
Refine maps
Extend to global area

50. Biodiversity Intactness
What does it tell you?
• How native species assemblages are impacted by:
• forest change (including regeneration)
• the use of cleared areas of forest (i.e. is the area used for
agriculture, urbanisation etc.)
• other human pressures (e.g. the introduction of roads)
• Where we can find areas of: intact biodiversity, recovery, and
dramatic degradation
How might it be used?
• Gathering statistics (at regional to national levels) on progress
towards retaining biodiversity*
• Advise land-use planners and businesses on:
• the consequences of development to biodiversity
• where development would be most harmful to biodiversity
• Advise protected-area planners on hotspots of intactness
• Filtering GLAD alerts
* for instance, the BII was already used as an indicator in the 2016 UK State of Nature Report

51. Long-term goals:
Temporal BII
Fragmentation
Extend database
Annual updates
Biodiversity
intactness
2001 2012

52. 20122001
Temporal
Biodiversity
Intactness

53. Long-term goals:
Temporal BII
Fragmentation
Extend database
Annual updates
Biodiversity
intactness
2001 2012

54. In the future… Biodiversity Intactness as an
interactive tool?

56. Prioritizing Deforestation Alerts in the GFW Platform
for Rapid Reaction Responses in Areas of High
Conservation Importance in Tropical Forests
Eric Dinerstein, Neil Burgess, and Anup Joshi
On Behalf of the Global Forest Watch
Biodiversity Working Group

58. • Slide from Carolyn on GLAD alerts from Peru

59. GLAD Alerts
□ Ecoregions & Landscapes
Intact Forests
Carbon Density
Imperiled
Ecoregions
□ Species and Sites □ User Defined Chest
of Drawers
PREDICTS
KBAs
IUCN maps of
range rarity

60. Option 1. Filtering GLAD Alerts by Ecoregions
and Landscapes

65. Potapov et al. 2017

67. © Bernardo Roca-Rey Ross
Two conservation targets:
Intact forest landscapes
and fragments holding the
last remaining population
of a critically endangered
species (AZE)

68. Option 2. The Sites or Hotspots of Rarity
Approach (a continuous layer)
Impact of forest
change on
biodiversity
intactness

69. Option 2. The Sites or Hotspots of Rarity Approach
(a continuous layer)

70. Option 3. The User Defined Approach (chest
of drawers)
Monarch breeding and
overwintering sites
Key Biodiversity Areas
Tiger Conservation
Landscapes

71. More layers can be added
Known breeding and non-breeding sites of threatened
migratory birds or butterflies
Alliance For Zero Extinction Sites
Important Bird Areas
Key Biodiversity Areas
Protected Areas (IUCN I-VI)
Tiger Conservation Landscapes
Priority Ape Polygons
Protected Areas with 10km buffer for African and Asiatic
elephant populations in forested habitat

72. And prioritized by the end user
Known breeding and non-breeding sites of
threatened migratory birds or butterflies
Alliance For Zero Extinction Sites
Important Bird Areas
Key Biodiversity Areas
Protected Areas (IUCN I-VI)
Tiger Conservation Landscapes
Priority Ape Polygons
Forested PAs + 10km buffer for African
and Asiatic elephants
Peru
GLAD alerts for
all KBAs in Peru
Glad alerts for all
forested PAs in
Tiger Conservation
Landscapes in
Sumatra
Sumatra

73. PHOTO: Jeffrey Rolinc (Flickr)
• Who could use these data? How do we reach them?
• What can these data be used to accomplish?
• What will be the main challenges we will face?
• Other than a map, how can we display data so it is best understood? How do we best
communicate these data and insights?
• In an ideal world, what would GFWB look like in one year? Five years? Ten years?