13/10/2025
16:00 - 17:00
IUCN Africa
Session with interpretation
Why attend
This session will showcase the work across Africa to identify Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) and monitor them, providing a continental overview, an example from Mozambique of a national KBA assessment, and finally an example of monitoring a KBA at Ifrane National Park in Morocco.
Session Description
African countries have been at the forefront of making comprehensive assessments of their KBA networks. This session will showcase countries that have made such comprehensive assessments, how that changed their network, and how the sites identified are being used to achieve the Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) targets, particularly Targets 1 and 3. Mozambique will present on their national KBA assessment, what they achieved and how they are now using the sites they identified to implement the KMGBF. Monitoring of KBAs is being developed in the World Database of KBAs and this session will also showcase an example of KBA in the Ifrane National Park in Morocco where monitoring over time is measuring the impacts from human actions as well as climate change. It will end with a discussion about how to encourage other countries to update their KBA networks and monitor these sites over time.Organized by
Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation
Partners
Session agenda
Speaker
Paul MATIKU
16:00-16:45 Assessment and monitoring of KBAs in Africa with an example of Ifrane National Park