The BIOPAMA (Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management) Reference Information System (RIS) is an online information system, bringing together relevant information to support decision-making for the protection and management of protected areas in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific countries. It is a tool developed under the IUCN - Joint Research Centre of the European Commission partnership for the BIOPAMA programme.
Explore
Explore the spatial data on protected areas on the Biopama RIS platform: http://rris.biopama.org/
In a nutshell
- The BIOPAMA Reference Information System (RIS) was created in 2014.
- The data is geospatial (maps and other data with a geographic reference), complemented with information on training, best practice, funding, literature and expertise.
- The BIOPAMA RIS is based on the use of open source software and the Internet.
