Canada’s KBA program represents an ambitious effort to map, monitor, and conserve the most important places for nature in the country. Want to get involved? You can help monitor and steward Canada’s Key Biodiversity Areas! 

We invite individuals, communities, organizations, and other stakeholders to support the KBA Program. There are many ways you can help conserve Key Biodiversity Areas and engage with the KBA Program: 

1. Suggest areas that should be considered for KBA status
2. Make others in your community aware of local KBAs and their importance for protecting biodiversity
3. Help us monitor the health of KBAs or take part in efforts to restore or enhance sites (see info in Caretaker section below)
4. Financially support efforts to expand the KBA network and protect biodiversity
5. Collaborate to conserve, protect, and safeguard these important places, for today and for posterity.

If you’re interested in becoming more involved with a specific KBA or multiple KBAs, consider becoming a Caretaker and joining a network of over 300 individuals across Canada. Caretakers are community stewards, carrying out conservation actions at their KBAs to help slow the loss of biodiversity. Coordinated Caretaker activity will allow us to improve stewardship of particularly vulnerable sites, and highlight how KBAs already preserve biodiversity. 

To volunteer as a Caretaker, support a regional KBA Program or learn more about how you can be involved, please contact Amanda Bichel, KBA Coordinator (abichel@birdscanada.org).

 General

• Caretaker Manual 
• Key Biodiversity Areas in Canada
  •  This one-page PDF provides background information for Key Biodiversity Areas and describes the work plan for the identification of KBAs in Canada.
•  Key Biodiversity Areas Canada Brochure
  • The brochure describes the need for KBAs, who is behind the initiative, and our next steps for establishing KBAs in Canada. 
•  Global Key Biodiversity Area Training Course – Identifying and delineating Key Biodiversity Areas
  • The global KBA Partnership has developed the first online Key Biodiversity Area Training Course in an effort to improve the availability of Key Biodiversity Area training around the world. The training is useful but generalized for a global context. Guidance and training from the Canadian KBA Secretariat will take precedence in Canada.
•   KBA Canada Facebook Group

Technical Resources

• Field Form (to update site information; a monitoring / assessment preliminary form)
• Field Form Guidance 
• iNaturalist – Getting Started
• iNaturalist’s bioblitz guide
• eBird quick start guide
• KBA Canada eBird protocol