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A Biodiversity Indicators Dashboard: Addressing Challenges to Monitoring Progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets Using Disaggregated Global Data

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Recognizing the imperiled status of biodiversity and its benefit to human well-being the world's governments committed in 2010 to take effective and urgent action to halt biodiversity loss through the Convention on Biological Diversity's “Aichi Targets”. These targets and many conservation programs require monitoring to assess progress toward specific goals. However comprehensive and easily understood information on biodiversity trends at appropriate spatial scales is often not available to the policy makers managers and scientists who require it. We surveyed conservation stakeholders in three geographically diverse regions of critical biodiversity concern (the Tropical Andes the African Great Lakes and the Greater Mekong) and found high demand for biodiversity indicator information but uneven availability. To begin to address this need we present a biodiversity “dashboard” – a visualization of biodiversity indicators designed to enable tracking of biodiversity and conservation performance data in a clear user-friendly format. This builds on previous more conceptual indicator work to create an operationalized online interface communicating multiple indicators at multiple spatial scales. We structured this dashboard around the Pressure-State-Response-Benefit framework selecting four indicators to measure pressure on biodiversity (deforestation rate) state of species (Red List Index) conservation response (protection of key biodiversity areas) and benefits to human populations (freshwater provision). Disaggregating global data we present dashboard maps and graphics for the three regions surveyed and their component countries. These visualizations provide charts showing regional and national trends and lay the foundation for a web-enabled interactive biodiversity indicators dashboard. This new tool can help track progress toward the Aichi Targets support national monitoring and reporting and inform outcome-based policy-making for the protection of natural resources.

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