2.2. Conservation features & data sources
Thirteen land cover types retrieved from the Global Land Cover Map year 2009 were intersected with six ranges
of elevation layers, resulting in 64 habitat features (Table 1). We used the dataset presented in Tordoff et al., (2012b) for the spatial distribution of KBAs for 199 threatened vertebrate species. This dataset was collated using published data via a desk-top survey and by consultation with surveyors, biologists and other wildlife experts (Tordoff et al., 2012b). This focused on four vertebrate taxonomic groups (30 amphib- ians, 40 reptiles, 68 birds and 61 mammals) listed by CEPF (see Appen- dix A). We did not include fish and marine mammals in our assessment because sets of KBAs for these species are still incomplete.