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Key Biodiversity Areas Journey Across the most important sites for nature Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are sites that contribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity, on land, in freshwater, and in the seas. KBAs are identified through national processes convened by local stakeholders using a set of globally-agreed scientific criteria. KBAs provide critical information to: Assist the selection of sites for protection and conservation Contribute to the achievement of global targets, such as Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 and 12, or Sustainable Development Goals Support private and financial sectors to manage their environmental risks Strengthen conservation actions on the ground This KBA journey will take you across the globe, from the Mediterranean to Myanmar. Come and learn how you can identify which sites are the most important for nature, how you can use this information for land-planning and for conservation action, or how businesses can operate in KBAs in a sustainable way. © Photo: Table mountain © Philip Milne

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Page 1: Key Biodiversity Areas Journey - IUCN · Key Biodiversity Areas Journey Across the most important sites for nature Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are “sites that contribute significantly

Key Biodiversity Areas Journey Across the most important sites for nature

Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are “sites that contribute significantly to the global persistence of biodiversity”, on land, in freshwater, and in the seas. KBAs are identified through national processes convened by local stakeholders using a set of globally-agreed

scientific criteria.

KBAs provide critical information to:

Assist the selection of sites for protection and conservation

Contribute to the achievement of global targets, such as Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 and 12, or Sustainable Development Goals

Support private and financial sectors to manage their environmental risks

Strengthen conservation actions

on the ground

This KBA journey will take you across the globe, from the Mediterranean to Myanmar. Come and learn how you can identify which sites are the most important for nature, how you can use this information for land-planning and for conservation action, or how businesses can operate

in KBAs in a sustainable way.

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Key Biodiversity Areas Journey - Events Programme Click the title of an event to visit its web-space, or visit https://portals.iucn.org/congress/sessions

Time Session

ID Title Type Organizer Room

Friday 2 September 2016

11.00 – 13.00

# 9665 Applications of biodiversity data: a private sector approach

Workshop The Biodiversity Consultancy

318B

16:00-16:30

#12433 Local action, Global impact: Using national conservation networks to conserve priority sites for birds and biodiversity

Pavilion Event

BirdLife International

Species Conser-vation Pavilion

17:00 - 19:00

# 10287 KBA Consultative Forum: exchanging experience on application of the KBA Standard at the national level

Workshop Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

319B

Saturday 3 September 2016

17:00 - 19:00

# 10366

Guiding Responsible Business Operations in Key Biodiversity Areas

Knowledge Café

IUCN Business and Biodiversity Programme

311-7

19:30 - 21:30

# 12447 Partners in knowledge: celebrating the launch of the Key Biodiversity Areas Partnership and the Red List Partnership

Pavilion Event

KBA Partnership and Red List partnership

Species Conser-vation Pavilion

Sunday 4 September 2016

09:00 - 13:00

# 10977

Knowledge Hub - Key Biodiversity Areas

Knowledge Hub

KBA Partnership Knowledge

Hub

17:00 - 19:00

# 10251 Effective strategies for conserving Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs): perspectives from Important Bird Areas (IBAs), Important Plant Areas (IPAs) and Alliance Zero Extinction (AZE) sites

Workshop IUCN-Med, BirdLife Int'l., Fundação Biodiversitas, Plantlife Int'l, Alliance for Zero Extinction

319A

Monday 5 September 2016

11:00 - 12:00

# 12503 Supporting protected area designation and management through identifying the most important sites for biodiversity: launch of the Key Biodiversity Areas Standard and Programme

Pavilion Event

IUCN Protected Planet Pavilion

14:30 - 19:00

# 9627 Applying the new Global Standard for the Identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA)

Conservation Campus

SSC-WCPA Joint Task Force on Biodiversity and Protected Areas, Arizona State University and BirdLife Int’l

305B

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Meeting Points

Please don’t hesitate to touch base with fellow travelers and stop at:

Contact

The Knowledge Hub:

Everything you Always

Wanted to Know on KBAs

Sunday 4 September 2016 morning

(from 9.00 to 13.00) –

Knowledge Hub, Main Hall

The Species Pavilion From 2 to 5 September 2016 -

Exhibition Hall

Annabelle Cuttelod

[email protected]

Zoltan Waliczky

[email protected]

Organized by the KBA Partnership:

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We would like to acknowledge the support provided during the path that led us

here by the following organizations:

Photo: Serra da Mantiqueira © A. C. Oliveira