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Who publishes the data in Atlas, how we obtain it, what licence applies, and how safely a copy is held. Atlas keeps its own complete archive, so it works independently of the publishers' systems.

Source registries
10
Publishers / services in Atlas
Archived copy
149,973 features
16 layers · 25.6 MB compressed
Latest complete snapshot
2026-10-12
232 files, all checksums verified
WWF Kenya Sources reviewed
484 data collections
18,298,703 features across 1104 layers

WWF Kenya Sources, KMFRI and KFS: Lamu Mangroves Species Formation

WWF Kenya / Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) / Kenya Forest Service (KFS)

Type
ArcGIS REST
Website
https://www.kenyamangrove.co.ke/
Datasets
8 in Atlas · 88,511 records
Attribution
Data generated by WWF Kenya and KMFRI; copyright/access information identifies WWF-Kenya, KMFRI and KFS.
Licence
To be confirmed licence terms are being confirmed with the publisher; held for scientific and internal use, so please ask the publisher before bulk redistribution
Atlas serves this source from its own archive. Live source checks are scheduled to run weekly after go-live.

WWF Kenya Sources: TBP & LCPM Mangrove Restoration Projects

WWF Kenya (TBP and LCPM projects)

Type
ArcGIS REST
Website
https://www.wwfkenya.org/
Datasets
5 in Atlas · 37 records
Attribution
WWF Kenya, KMFRI, KFS
Licence
To be confirmed licence terms are being confirmed with the publisher; held for scientific and internal use, so please ask the publisher before bulk redistribution
Atlas serves this source from its own archive. Live source checks are scheduled to run weekly after go-live.

WWF Kenya Sources: Coastal Kenya Programme sea-turtle tagging

WWF Kenya (Coastal Kenya Programme)

Type
ArcGIS REST
Website
https://www.wwfkenya.org/
Datasets
2 in Atlas · 1,421 records
Attribution
WWF Kenya, KMFRI, KFS
Licence
To be confirmed licence terms are being confirmed with the publisher; held for scientific and internal use, so please ask the publisher before bulk redistribution
Atlas serves this source from its own archive. Live source checks are scheduled to run weekly after go-live.

WWF Kenya Sources: GIS Centre of Excellence

WWF Kenya

Type
ArcGIS REST
Website
https://www.wwfkenya.org/
Datasets
793 in Atlas · 862,743 records
Attribution
WWF Kenya and the original data owners
Licence
To be confirmed licence terms are being confirmed with the publisher; held for scientific and internal use, so please ask the publisher before bulk redistribution
Atlas serves this source from its own archive. Live source checks are scheduled to run weekly after go-live.

Global Mangrove Watch v3.0

Global Mangrove Watch (Aberystwyth University, soloEO, Wetlands International, UNEP-WCMC, JAXA)

Type
Zenodo dataset (GeoTIFF / Shapefile)
Website
https://www.globalmangrovewatch.org/
Datasets
150 in Atlas · 827,920 records
Attribution
Bunting, P., Rosenqvist, A., Hilarides, L., Lucas, R.M., Thomas, T., Tadono, T., Worthington, T.A., Spalding, M., Murray, N.J., Rebelo, L-M. (2022). Global Mangrove Extent Change 1996-2020: Global Mangrove Watch Version 3.0. Remote Sensing 14(15):3657. Dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.6894273
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Atlas serves this source from its own archive. Live source checks are scheduled to run weekly after go-live.

Global Mangrove Watch v4.1

Global Mangrove Watch (Aberystwyth University, soloEO, Wetlands International, UNEP-WCMC, JAXA)

Type
Zenodo dataset (GeoTIFF / Shapefile)
Website
https://www.globalmangrovewatch.org/
Datasets
224 in Atlas · 1,237,531 records
Attribution
Global Mangrove Watch (2026). Global Mangrove Watch: Timeseries of Mangrove Extent, version 4.1.12. Zenodo, doi:10.5281/zenodo.21346456. Method: Bunting et al. (2022) Remote Sensing 14(15):3657 and later GMW v4 updates. CC BY 4.0.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Atlas serves this source from its own archive. Live source checks are scheduled to run weekly after go-live.

Berkeley Voluntary Registry Offsets Database (v2026-08)

Berkeley Carbon Trading Project, University of California, Berkeley

Type
Registry compilation (XLSX)
Website
https://gspp.berkeley.edu/berkeley-carbon-trading-project/offsets-database
Datasets
34 in Atlas · 507 records
Attribution
Pamela Quartson, Barbara K Haya, Tyler Bernard, Aline Abayo, Xinyun Rong, Ivy S So, Micah Elias (2026). Voluntary Registry Offsets Database v2026-08. Berkeley Carbon Trading Project, University of California, Berkeley.
Licence
To be confirmed licence terms are being confirmed with the publisher; held for scientific and internal use, so please ask the publisher before bulk redistribution
Atlas serves this source from its own archive. Live source checks are scheduled to run weekly after go-live.

UNEP-WCMC global seagrass and saltmarsh layers

UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and Short FT

Type
Published dataset (shapefile)
Website
https://data.unep-wcmc.org/
Datasets
41 in Atlas · 7,252 records
Attribution
UNEP-WCMC, Short FT. Global distribution of seagrasses (v7.1, 2021) and saltmarsh (v6.1, 2021).
Licence
To be confirmed licence terms are being confirmed with the publisher; held for scientific and internal use, so please ask the publisher before bulk redistribution
Atlas serves this source from its own archive. Live source checks are scheduled to run weekly after go-live.

UNDP project data (IATI Registry)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Type
Open project data (IATI XML)
Website
https://open.undp.org
Datasets
54 in Atlas · 335 records
Attribution
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Project data published to the IATI Registry.
Licence
To be confirmed licence terms are being confirmed with the publisher; held for scientific and internal use, so please ask the publisher before bulk redistribution
Atlas serves this source from its own archive. Live source checks are scheduled to run weekly after go-live.

WWF Kenya GIS Centre of Excellence — full server mirror

WWF Kenya

Type
ArcGIS REST
Website
https://www.wwfkenya.org/
Datasets
21 in Atlas · 5,590,476 records
Attribution
WWF Kenya and the original data owners
Licence
To be confirmed licence terms are being confirmed with the publisher; held for scientific and internal use, so please ask the publisher before bulk redistribution
Atlas serves this source from its own archive. Live source checks are scheduled to run weekly after go-live.

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