Key Landscapes for Conservation (KLC) are areas recognised to be of global wildlife importance with intact ecosystems that are capable of sustaining wildlife populations in the face of increasing isolation from other similar areas (Larger Than Elephants - Inputs for EU strategic approach to wildlife conservation in Africa - Regional Analysis, European Commission, 2016). In 2019 and 2020, following discussions with experts, the JRC proposed an update of the layer published in 2016. The 2020 layer was created in QGIS with python (10.5281/zenodo.8207793). The layer is available in three different data formats: ESRI shapefile, geojson and kml. The document KLC_modifications_20200922.pdf illustrates the proposed changes relative to the 2016 version of the polygons.

This work was funded by the Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management (BIOPAMA) Programme: https://biopama.org/about-us/