Living Planet Index
Partners and Collaborators
Key Partners
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Founded in 1826, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is an international scientific, conservation and educational organisation. Its mission is to achieve and promote the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats. ZSL has been managing the Living Planet Index in a collaborative partnership with WWF since 2006. |
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WWF is one of the world's largest and most experienced independent conservation organisations, with over 5 million supporters and a global network active in more than 100 countries. WWF first developed the Living Planet Index in 1998 as a means to monitor the changing state of nature. |
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University College London was founded in 1826. UCL is a key academic partner for ZSL, with ties through research and postgraduate education between the two institutions. Many Masters and PhD student projects focussing on the Living Planet Index or the data are co-supervised between UCL and IOZ. Students have explored research topics looking at correlates of change in vertebrate populations such as the effects of land-use and climate change, and the impact of conservation actions. |
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The Canadian Species Index (CSI) was developed by ZSL for the Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) programme. It is used as part of a suite of indicators to report back to Canadians on the state of the environment and to measure progress on the Federal Sustainable Development Strategy. Additionally, the CESI indicators support and report on the progress of national and international legislation, strategies and frameworks, including the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The CSI can assist policy makers, conservation managers and the public to understand how some of the population trends across Canada’s species are changing over time. |
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The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation is a government agency which aims to safeguard heritage, ecosystems and species across Brazil. ICMBio provides long-term monitoring data from protected areas in Brazil to the Living Planet Database improving the representation of the Index. This collaboration also provides data from non-English sources, reducing the geographic and taxonomic biases in the global Living Planet Index. |
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WWF-Canada is a regional department of the global wildlife conservation charity WWF. WWF-Canada published the Living Planet Report Canada, WWF-Canada’s flagship report on the state of wildlife, which includes the Canadian Living Planet Index. ZSL and WWF-Canada have been collaborating through data sharing, indicator development and joint research since 2016. |
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to Jonathan Loh and Ben Collen, who were instrumental for the initial development and growth of the LPI. Thank you also to participants of the workshop on LPI development held in London in September 2023 whose conversations have helped inform the development of the LPI.
We are also very grateful to the following individuals and organisations who have worked with us and/or shared their data.
Richard Gregory, Peter Vorisek and the European Bird Census Council for data from the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring scheme; the Global population Dynamics Database from the Center for Population Biology, Imperial College London; Derek Pomeroy, Betty Lutoaya and Herbert Tushabe for data from the National Biodiversity Database, Makerere University Institute of Environment and Natural Resources, Uganda; Kristin Thorsrud Teien and Jorgen Randers, WWF Norway; Pere Tomas-Vives, Christian Peremou, Driss Ezzine de Blas, Patrick Grillas and Thomas Galewski, Tour du Valat, Camargue, France; David Junor and Alexis Morgan, WWF Canada and all data contributors to the LPI for Canada; Miguel Angel Nunez Herrero and Juan Diego Lopez Giraldo, the Environmental Volunteer Programmer in Natural Areas of Murcia region, Spain; Mike Gill from the CBMP, Christoph Zockler, UNEP-WCMC and all data contributors to the ASTI reports (www.asti.is); WWF Netherlands and all data contributors to the LPI for global estuarine systems; all individuals who have provided data for the Canadian Species Index; Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip and collaborators for providing Caribbean reef-fish data; Sergi Herrando and the Catalan Ornithological Institute for providing the data behind the Catalan Common Bird Survey (SOCC), Ape Populations, Environments and Surveys (A.P.E.S.) database; all individuals who have provided data for the Forest Specialist Index; University of Queensland and the Threatened Species Index team and friends; Frans Schepers, Rewilding Europe and all contributors to the Wildlife comeback project; Arjan Berkhuysen, the World Fish Migration Foundation and all data contributors to the LPI of migratory freshwater fish; EBCC for contributing comprehensive monitoring data on European birds.
Collaborators, funders and data providers
Past partners and collaborators
