Which assets contribute more to the country wildlife economy potential for nature-based tourism?

This indicator represents wildlife-watching species richness at country level. Wildlife watching species/groups include Rhinos, Elephant, Lion, Leopard, Buffalo, Giraffe, Lowland and Mountain Gorilla, Chimpanzees, Bonobo, Sifaka, Ringtails, Aye-Aye, Mouse lemurs and Colobus. Number of occurring species/groups is weighted by specific scores of attractiveness and encounter easiness based on experts opinion.

Indicator of potential human pressure in and around protected areas derived from indices of forest loss, population and agriculture pressures (DOPA 4.0).

Changes in the above-ground biomass stock in forest indicate the balance between gains in biomass stock due to forest growth and losses due to wood removals, natural losses, fire, wind, pests and diseases. At country level and over a longer period, sustainable forest management would imply a stable or increasing biomass stock per hectare, while a long-term reduction of biomass stock per hectare would imply either unsustainable management of the forests and degradation or unexpected major losses due to fire, wind, pests or diseases.

Industrial and smallholder oil palm plantation data.

This dataset shows the Mangrove Forests Protection for the year 2016 and the country mangrove extent  for years 1996 and 2016. The dataset is a subset of the global mangrove extent dataset generated by the Global Mangrove Watch (GMW) – a collaboration between Aberystwyth University (U.K.), solo Earth Observation (soloEO), Wetlands International, the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). 

Which protected areas are visited most frequently?

Average annual number of visitors to a protected area. Data are currently available for a limited set of sitesand from different sources, published in the study: Balmford A, Green JMH, Anderson M, Beresford J, Huang C, Naidoo R, et al. (2015) Walk on the Wild Side: Estimating the Global Magnitude of Visits to Protected Areas. PLoS Biol 13(2): e1002074. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002074.

Adaptation capacity

This is a composite indicators of the capacity of responding and adapting to the crisis derived from indicators of poverty, food security, governance, communication and physical connectivity. It is obtained from a linear combination of single standardised dimensions, then standardised in a 0-1 range where 1 means lack of adaptation capacity.

It can be used for vulnerabliity and risk analysis. It is one of the dimension of the vulnerability to global tourism and travel crisis.

Index of biodiversity importance based on Key Biodiversity Areas coverage and species richness from IUCN Red List. It can be used as proxy of biodiversity exposure in risk and vulnerability analysis.

It is a dimension of the composite indicator on vulnerability to global travel and tourism crises.

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