www.conabio.gob.mx/informacion/gis
CONABIO (The National Commission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity) provides a national geoportal for Mexico, which contains general geodata in 14 topics among others biodiversity data, vegetation data and hydrological data. It is accompanied by comprehensive metadata for each topic and a search function.
The Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA) is a set of web services and interfaces that provides a large variety of end-users including park managers, park agencies, other decision-makers and researchers with means to assess, monitor and possibly forecast the state of and pressure on protected areas at multiple scales.
www.ibat-alliance.org/ibat-conservation/login
The tool IBAT for Research and Conservation Planning contributes access to a range of global and national data layers, such as protected area boundaries, biological information about habitat and species diversity indices, and key areas for biodiversity. IBAT is made possible by a diverse set of data providers, users and funders (BirdLife International, Conservation International, IUCN and UNEP WCMC). Accessing IBAT requires a registration.
Protected Planet is the online interface for the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), a join project of IUCN and UNEP, and the most comprehensive global database on terrestrial and marine protected areas, feeding you information from the WDPA, photos from Panoramio and text descriptions from Wikipedia.
www.unesco.org/mabdb/bios1-2.htm
The Unesco MAB Biosphere Reserves Directory contains location maps and informations on individual biosphere reserves for every region in the world.
