Ocean+ Habitats
type: Dataset
description: Ocean+ Habitats is a trusted source of authoritative information on the status and conservation of the world's coastal habitats.Ocean+ Habitats is a living platform providing the world's decision-makers and communities of practice with the best possible global information, knowledge and tools required to manage and conserve ocean ecosystems.About Ocean+ HabitatsOcean+ Habitats offers authoritative insight about the health, distribution and change of marine habitats around the world. By connecting public and private sector decision-makers with state-of-the-art biodiversity knowledge developed by collaborators, Ocean+ Habitats provides actionable data to inform conservation and restoration of marine ecosystems.Since 2011, global marine biodiversity datasets hosted on the Ocean Data Viewer have been used by more than 3,200 organisations in 219 countries and territories across six continents. Companies in the Proteus Partnership have used Ocean+ and associated databases to conduct high-level screening for areas of biodiversity importance. Government agencies and conservation planners use the information to prioritize new conservation and restoration actions and build national data inventories. Development banks have used the data to conduct environmental risk analyses and inform financing. Universities and schools have used Ocean+ for training and research, while hosted data are frequently used in indicator development. In many cases, these users have shared the need for insight on the state of marine and coastal habitats to inform decisions.Ocean+ Habitats responds to these users’ requests for access to derived statistics and information on marine and coastal habitats and their levels of protection. By partnering with authoritative biodiversity knowledge providers such as Protected Planet and the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, Ocean+ Habitats provides the contextual information that can help public and private sector decision-makers understand where protection is…
language: en
date created: 03-09-2025T13:09:34.0
date modified: 17-10-2025T00:10:00.0
publisher: Secreteriat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
subject of: Coastal and Marine
keywords: healthy oceans
keywords: blue habitats
keywords: coral
keywords: #mangroves
keywords: ocean habitats
license: https://pacific-data.sprep.org/resource/public-data-license-agreement-0
spatial coverage: Pacific Region, Worldwide
accountable person: brad.eichelberger
distribution: Ocean+ Habitats Data Viewer
  type: DataDownload
  description: Ocean+ Habitats is a trusted source of authoritative information on the status and conservation of the world's coastal habitats.Ocean+ Habitats is a living platform providing the world's decision-makers and communities of practice with the best possible global information, knowledge and tools required to manage and conserve ocean ecosystems.About Ocean+ HabitatsOcean+ Habitats offers authoritative insight about the health, distribution and change of marine habitats around the world. By connecting public and private sector decision-makers with state-of-the-art biodiversity knowledge developed by collaborators, Ocean+ Habitats provides actionable data to inform conservation and restoration of marine ecosystems.Since 2011, global marine biodiversity datasets hosted on the Ocean Data Viewer have been used by more than 3,200 organisations in 219 countries and territories across six continents. Companies in the Proteus Partnership have used Ocean+ and associated databases to conduct high-level screening for areas of biodiversity importance. Government agencies and conservation planners use the information to prioritize new conservation and restoration actions and build national data inventories. Development banks have used the data to conduct environmental risk analyses and inform financing. Universities and schools have used Ocean+ for training and research, while hosted data are frequently used in indicator development. In many cases, these users have shared the need for insight on the state of marine and coastal habitats to inform decisions.Ocean+ Habitats responds to these users’ requests for access to derived statistics and information on marine and coastal habitats and their levels of protection. By partnering with authoritative biodiversity knowledge providers such as Protected Planet and the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, Ocean+ Habitats provides the contextual information that can help public and private sector decision-makers understand where protection is…