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Bridging Conflicts and Biodiversity Protection: The Critical Role of Reliable and Comparable Data

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dc.contributor.authorBlankespoor, Brian
dc.contributor.authorDasgupta, Susmita
dc.contributor.authorWheeler, David
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-27T18:14:05Z
dc.date.available2025-02-27T18:14:05Z
dc.date.issued2025-02-27
dc.description.abstractBiodiversity is essential for ecological stability, human well-being, and economic progress, providing critical ecosystem services such as clean water, food, and climate regulation. However, it faces unprecedented threats, with extinction rates accelerating to 1,000 times the natural baseline due to habitat destruction, overexploitation, pollution, invasive species, illegal trade, and climate change. Effective conservation requires urgent, coordinated global action, as ecosystems and species habitats often transcend national borders. Collaboration among governments, industries, and communities is essential to restore habitats, protect endangered species, strengthen policies, and enforce conservation measures. The challenges of biodiversity conservation are particularly acute in geopolitically sensitive and overlapping regions, including non-determined legal status territories, fragile and conflict-affected situations, and transboundary ecosystems. In these areas, effective conservation is hindered by weak policies, inconsistent enforcement, and institutional fragility. This paper addresses these challenges by providing baseline data to guide conservation strategies. Using newly developed World Bank species occurrence maps based on open-access, date-stamped records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, the study evaluates species richness, endemism, and extinction risks across 35 non-determined legal status territories, 19 conflict-affected countries, 20 fragile states, 18 marine joint regimes, and 311 international river basins. The data sets reveal that these regions host numerous, often vulnerable, species. Biodiversity conservation emerges as a pathway for trust-building and collaboration, aligning stakeholders around shared goals such as climate resilience and sustainable livelihoods. Reliable and comparable data sets are critical for evidence-based planning, fostering dialogue and cooperation among divided groups. The estimates presented in this paper aim to support robust, data-driven strategies to safeguard biodiversity in geopolitically sensitive and overlapping regions, with far-reaching implications for global conservation and international cooperation.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099415202272518792
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-11076
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/42873
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper; 11076
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectBIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION
dc.subjectNON-DETERMINED LEGAL STATUS TERRITORIES
dc.subjectFRAGILE AND CONFLICT-AFFECTED SITUATIONS
dc.subjectTRANSBOUNDARY ECOSYSTEMS
dc.subjectMARINE JOINT REGIMES
dc.subjectINTERNATIONAL RIVER BASINS
dc.titleBridging Conflicts and Biodiversity Protectionen
dc.title.subtitleThe Critical Role of Reliable and Comparable Dataen
dc.typeWorking Paper
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okr.associatedcontenthttps://reproducibility.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/267 Link to reproducibility package
okr.date.disclosure2025-02-27
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-14T12:01:56.643546Z
okr.date.lastmodified2025-02-27T16:04:46Zen
okr.doctypePolicy Research Working Paper
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099415202272518792
okr.guid099415202272518792
okr.identifier.docmidIDU-6a83bf05-97b6-413e-9bdc-8d6ea3f80789
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-11076
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum34460619
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum34460619
okr.identifier.reportWPS11076
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okr.pdfurlhttps://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099415202272518792/pdf/IDU-6a83bf05-97b6-413e-9bdc-8d6ea3f80789.pdfen
okr.region.geographicalWorld
okr.sectorFY17 - Other Public Administration
okr.sectorFY17 - Public Administration
okr.themeFY17 - Adaptation,FY17 - Adaptation,FY17 - Data Development and Capacity Building,FY17 - Data Development and Capacity Building,FY17 - Biodiversity,FY17 - Biodiversity,FY17 - Climate change,FY17 - Climate change,FY17 - Data production, accessibility and use,FY17 - Renewable Natural Resources Asset Management,FY17 - Renewable Natural Resources Asset Management,FY17 - Climate change,FY17 - Climate change,FY17 - Mitigation,FY17 - Mitigation,FY17 - Mitigation,FY17 - Mitigation,FY17 - Renewable Natural Resources Asset Management,FY17 - Renewable Natural Resources Asset Management,FY17 - Adaptation,FY17 - Adaptation,FY17 - Data production, accessibility and use,FY17 - Data production, accessibility and use,FY17 - Data Development and Capacity Building,FY17 - Biodiversity,FY17 - Biodiversity,FY17 - Oceans,FY17 - Oceans,FY17 - Oceans,FY17 - Oceans,FY17 - Data Development and Capacity Building,FY17 - Data production, accessibility and use
okr.themeFY17 - Public Sector Management,FY17 - Public Sector Management,FY17 - Public Sector Management,FY17 - Public Sector Management,FY17 - Environment and Natural Resource Management,FY17 - Environment and Natural Resource Management,FY17 - Environment and Natural Resource Management,FY17 - Environment and Natural Resource Management
okr.topicEnvironment::Natural Resources Management
okr.topicConflict and Development::Conflict and Fragile States
okr.topicEnvironment::Water Resources Management
okr.topicEnvironment::Biodiversity
okr.topicEnvironment::Ecosystems and Natural Habitats
okr.unitDECSI; DECDG
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