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Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool

The world's most authoritative biodiversity data for your world-shaping decisions

Los Quetzales National Park
World Database on Protected Areas

Last data update
01/12/2024

305,132 Protected Areas
166,061 IUCN Red List species
16,510 Key Biodiversity Areas

Bringing Data to Life

Emperor Penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
IUCN Red List Least Concern

Key Features

The Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) is an Alliance between BirdLife International, United Nations Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre, The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Conservation International.

IBAT is a biodiversity data provider licencing commercial access to global biodiversity datasets and derived data layers including the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and the World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas (WDKBA).

IBAT offers rapid visual screening for critical biodiversity

IBAT also provides access to biodiversity reports that offer fast, easy and web-based methods of querying these global datasets to gain site-specific insights on biodiversity risk and opportunities.

IBAT Reports include:

  • Disclosure Preparation Report
  • Proximity Analysis
  • IFC & World Bank PS6/ESS6 Report on Critical Habitat
  • Freshwater Report
  • Multi-site Analysis
  • Species Threat Abatement
  • Restoration Metric Report.

Examples of all the reports and an extract of GIS data can be downloaded here or requested on demand.

Access and download services

Access to IBAT Datasets and Reports is arranged through a subscription or Pay As You Go download, which automatically includes a licence to use the data for commercial purposes:

i.e. (a) any use by, on behalf of, or to inform or assist the activities of, a commercial entity (an entity that operates ‘for profit’) or (b) use by any individual or non-profit entity for the purposes of revenue generation.

Choose your plan

Free

$0

  • Access to Country Profiles
  • Visual Data Map displaying:
    • Protected Areas
    • Key Biodiversity Areas
    • IUCN Red List Species
    • STAR Layer (50km resolution)
    • Rarity-weighted species richness
  • Download reports using pay as you go
  • Save sites

Basic

$5,000

Everything in Free plan plus:

  • Access to Site Catalogue
  • Upload & save multiple locations to Visual Data Map
  • 10 proximity reports

Pro

$15,000

Everything in Basic plan plus:

  • Access to 5km resolution STAR layer on map
  • 30 PS6 ESS6 reports, 30 proximity reports, 30 freshwater reports and 30 STAR reports
  • 1 million sqkm GIS download – IUCN Red List, WDPA, WDKBA
  • 100,000 sqkm GIS download – STAR and Rarity-weighted species richness
  • 3 Multi-site reports
  • 1 Disclosure Preparation Report (up to 300 sites)

Enterprise

$25,000

Everything in Pro plan plus:

  • Unlimited GIS download (IUCN Red List, WDPA, WDKBA)
  • 1 million sqkm GIS download – STAR and Rarity-weighted species richness
  • Unlimited reports
  • • 3 Disclosure Preparation Reports (up to 1000 sites each)

Enterprise Plus

$35,000

Everything in Enterprise plan plus:

  • Unlimited GIS Download (STAR and Rarity-weighted species richness)
  • Access to web services
  • Unlimited Disclosure Preparation Reports (up to 1000 sites each)

These prices do not include VAT

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Sierra Nevada De Santa Marta
Natural National Park
World Database on Protected Areas
World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas

Some of our users

Aditya Birla Group - African Development Bank - Allianz SE - Anglo American - Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank - Belgian Export Credit Agency - BP - CEMEX - Credit Suisse - EDF - European Investment Bank - ENGIE - Evonik - Fauna & Flora International - Finnfund - Fortescue Metals Group - GSK - Heidelberg Cement - IKEA - Inter American Development Bank - Intercontinental Hotels Group - International Finance Corporation - International Olympic Committee - L'Oréal - Nestle Waters Management - Netherlands Enterprise Agency - New Development Bank - Norway Government Pension Fund Global Council on Ethics - Oil Spill Response Ltd - Olam International - Rio Tinto - Shell - Société Generale - Standard Chartered - The Biodiversity Consultancy - TotalEnergies - Unilever - The World Bank - WWF

Know your environment

IBAT provides a range of tutorials, guidance documents and webinars through a dedicated resources page.

To see testimonials of how other companies are using IBAT, please see here. For other FAQs see here or contact us at ibat@ibat-alliance.org

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