Welcome
1 Executive summary
2 What the toolkit offers
- 2.1 Key Biodiversity Areas
- 2.2 Overview of toolkit content
3 What the toolkit does not offer
4 Contribute to the toolkit
5 Getting a site conserved
6 Project management considerations
7 Before you begin a KBA project
8 Sites: Marine sites concepts
9 Sites: KBAs & IBAs
- 9.1 Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs)
  - 9.1.1 KBA site definition
- 9.2 Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs)
  - 9.2.1 IBA site definition
10 Sites: Toolkit context
11 Sites: Method considerations for project managers
12 Sites: Conservation of sites (summary)
13 Sites: Policy & Advocacy tools (summary)
14 Data needs: Identifying a site
15 Data needs: dataGroup (unit of analysis)
- 15.1 Example dataGroup for analysing tracking data to identify an important site
16 Breeding location (abundance data): single species, single site
17 Breeding location (abundance data): single species, multiple sites
18 Breeding location (abundance data): multi species, multiple sites
19 Seaward Extension: Introduction
20 Seaward Extension: single colony
21 Seaward Extension: multiple colonies
22 Tracking data: Brief introduction
- 22.1 Animal tracking data considered in this toolkit
- 22.2 General introduction to animal tracking data
23 Tracking data: Sampling strategy
24 Tracking data: Merge files together for analysis
25 Tracking data: Convert files into format of Seabird Tracking Database
26 Tracking data: Plotting tracks and reviewing tabular data
27 Tracking data: Cleaning tracking data
28 Track2KBA: Introduction
29 Track2KBA - Central Place Foragers: Clean and summarise data for analysis
30 Track2KBA - Central Place Foragers: Analyse cleanded data
31 Track2KBA: Non central place foraging animal movement
32 Sites: Assessing criteria
33 Sites: Considerations for assessing sites against criteria
34 Sites: Merging layers
35 Sites: Refining boundaries
- 35.1 Lessons from Key Biodiversity Areas
- 35.2 Lessons from Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas
36 Supporting data: At-sea survey data
37 Supporting data: statistical models
38 Sites: Proposing a KBA
- 38.1 Who can propose a KBA?
- 38.2 Queries about proposing a KBA?
39 Sites: Monitoring
40 Sites: Conservation of sites
41 Sites: Policy and advocacy
42 Sites: Proposing an IBA
- 42.1 Who can propose an IBA?
- 42.2 Queries about proposing an IBA?
43 Appendix: Tracking data: advanced interpolation
44 Contact us
45 References

Marine Megafauna Conservation Toolkit

44 Contact us

The primary contact for this toolkit is Jonathan Handley: jonathan.handley@birdlife.org

Members of the Marine Science team at BirdLife International can also be contacted for support.