Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool
The world's most authoritative biodiversity data for your world-shaping decisions
Torres del Paine
World Database on Protected Areas
World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas
Last data update
02/09/2024
Bringing Data to Life
Emperor Penguin
Aptenodytes forsteri
IUCN Red List Least Concern
Key Features
The Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) is an Alliance between BirdLife International, United Nations Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre, The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Conservation International.
IBAT is a biodiversity data provider licencing commercial access to global biodiversity datasets and derived data layers including the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and the World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas (WDKBA).
IBAT offers rapid visual screening for critical biodiversity
IBAT also provides access to biodiversity reports that offer fast, easy and web-based methods of querying these global datasets to gain site-specific insights on biodiversity risk and opportunities.
IBAT Reports include:
- Disclosure Preparation Report
- Proximity Analysis
- IFC & World Bank PS6/ESS6 Report on Critical Habitat
- Freshwater Report
- Multi-site Analysis
- Species Threat Abatement
- Restoration Metric Report.
Examples of all the reports and an extract of GIS data can be downloaded here or requested on demand.
Access and download services
Access to IBAT Datasets and Reports is arranged through a subscription or Pay As You Go download, which automatically includes a licence to use the data for commercial purposes:
i.e. (a) any use by, on behalf of, or to inform or assist the activities of, a commercial entity (an entity that operates ‘for profit’) or (b) use by any individual or non-profit entity for the purposes of revenue generation.
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Some of our users
Aditya Birla Group - African Development Bank - Allianz SE - Anglo American - Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank - Belgian Export Credit Agency - BP - CEMEX - Credit Suisse - EDF - European Investment Bank - ENGIE - Evonik - Fauna & Flora International - Finnfund - Fortescue Metals Group - GSK - Heidelberg Cement - IKEA - Inter American Development Bank - Intercontinental Hotels Group - International Finance Corporation - International Olympic Committee - L'Oréal - Nestle Waters Management - Netherlands Enterprise Agency - New Development Bank - Norway Government Pension Fund Global Council on Ethics - Oil Spill Response Ltd - Olam International - Rio Tinto - Shell - Société Generale - Standard Chartered - The Biodiversity Consultancy - TotalEnergies - Unilever - The World Bank - WWF
Know your environment
IBAT provides a range of tutorials, guidance documents and webinars through a dedicated resources page.
To see testimonials of how other companies are using IBAT, please see here. For other FAQs see here or contact us at [email protected]