Tutorials

IBAT Users can create portfolios of Projects to faciliate the management of large numbers of associated sites or assets, and the generation of multi-site reports for reporting and disclosure purposes.

This video explains what KBAs are and why they are critical for ensuring that protection occurs in the right places. The world is discussing expanding protection to 30% of the planet by 2030 in order to halt biodiversity loss - but if the 30% is not well placed it will likely have minimal impact.

Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are the most important places in the world for species and their habitats.

By providing these data through IBAT, commercial users, private industry and other stakeholders can make the best decisions about how to manage land (or waters), where to avoid development, and how best to conserve and protect the animals and plants for which the sites are so important.

IBAT account admins can easily add new staff members or consultants to their subscription. There are no limitations on the number of accounts per organisation.

This tutorial is for IBAT account managers to make their users inactive once colleagues or consultants no longer require access to the tool.

Once the user is inactive you will see their activity status listed as 'false'.

Key Biodiversity Areas, protected areas and the range rarity layer (derived from range maps of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species) can be viewed together in IBAT. These layers can be viewed in relation to IBAT Projects to help understand the location of particular sites and the global relevance of a particular commercial activity. Note, the IBAT data map is not sufficient for biodiversity risk screening on its own as it does not provide all the information needed to make an informed decision. For the full datasets and proximity analysis please see IBAT Reports.

This tutorial shows how to upload a single site location, which is stored as a 'Project' in IBAT. Users can also upload sites en masse (please see our tutorial for the spatial file upload). Once users have created IBAT Projects, they can then use these to download IBAT reports or the raw GIS data for the IUCN Red List, Key Biodiversity Areas and protected areas.

This report allows users to assess multiple sites in relation to one another and identify those with high biodiversity risk. This report is useful for IBAT users in a range of ways including assisting with their sustainability reporting against biodiversity standards like GRI 304-1 or assessing supply chains for sustainability.

IBAT Freshwater Reports are designed to speak to the potential biodiversity risk of operating in freshwater systems and are based on the IUCN HydroBASINS layer which contains global watershed boundaries and sub-basin delineations. The reports allow users to identify how their activities could impact freshwater biodiversity upstream and downstream of the site.

The IBAT Proximity Report is our flagship report that draws from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, Protected Areas and Key Biodiversity Areas data. Users can see the proximity of their project to these biodiversity features with a range of buffers up to 50km from the project boundary.

IBAT biodiversity risk screening reports focus on a range of topics. This report focusses on Critical Habitat and is designed to assist users intending to adhere to International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standard 6 (PS6) and World Bank ESS6.

This video shows how to request upgrades for IBAT Subscriptions. Users can subscribe at Basic, Pro or Enterprise Level in order to access globally authoritative conservation data and biodiversity risk screening reports.

This tutorial describes the process of uploading a spatial file in IBAT. Files including ESRI Shapefiles, KMZ, KML and CSV can be directly uploaded onto the IBAT platform to create IBAT Projects.

Data for the World Database on Protected Areas, The World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas and The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species can be downloaded in IBAT at the project or global level. This tutorial describes how to download and manage your data downloads in IBAT.