Biodiversity Dashboard
How can we measure biodiversity? Charts, maps, and tables can give a bigger picture of the state of the world's species and habitat. As you can see below, how well a country scores on international indices of biodiversity, such as the Ecosystem Vitality Index, is not necessarily dependent on its economic status. Making biodiversity and climate change a priority are important for many countries that would not be considered wealthy in terms of finances. It is difficult to see a pattern between country progress on keeping or increasing habitat areas and the amount of forest that has been lost in the same country.
How can we measure biodiversity? Charts, maps, and tables can give a bigger picture of the state of the world's species and habitat. As you can see below, how well a country scores on international indices of biodiversity, such as the Ecosystem Vitality Index, is not necessarily dependent on its economic status. Making biodiversity and climate change a priority are important for many countries that would not be considered wealthy in terms of finances. It is difficult to see a pattern between country progress on keeping or increasing habitat areas and the amount of forest that has been lost in the same country.
Data source: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy - YCELP - Yale University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University, and World Economic Forum - WEF. (2018). 2018 Environmental Performance Index (EPI). NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H4X928CF.
