This Biodiversity Hackathon is facilitated by a Global Biodiversity Data & Analytics activity financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and a Blue Biodiversity and BlueTech activity financed by the ProBlue Trust Fund both implemented through The World Bank. This also builds on the work of several partners and other agencies around the work who are working tirelessly to improve access to global data on biodiversity and related habitats and ecosystems. Some of these data, platforms, and knowledge collations are mentioned below to get you started for this Biodiversity Hackathon! Hope it helps spark you to be even more creative in your applications! Do share other open data that you come across with us at spatialagent@worldbank.org
World Bank Platforms
Policy Research Working Papers
Global Spatial Data hosted on the World Bank Data Catalog :
Blog posts
Copernicus Marine Biodiversity
Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem
ESA Biodiversity Science Cluster
Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)
Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON)
GEOBON (Group on Earth Observation Biodiversity Observation Network)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
World Resources Institute (WRI)
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Living Planet Report 2024, Global Observation and Biodiversity Information Portal (GLOBIL)
UN Environment Program (also see WESR Platform)
FAO Earthmap and the Hand-in-Hand Initiative
Google (Google Earth Engine Datasets, Big Query , Public Data Explorer)