---
id: data-sources/global-safety-net-v3-gsn3
about:
  label: Global Safety Net v3
  description: >-
    Global map from One Earth and Nature Data Lab of lands and inland waters
    important for biodiversity, ecosystem services and climate, with land cover
    and conservation status, designed to be updated every year; launched
    September 2026 as a free web viewer.
  tags:
    - conservation
    - biodiversity
    - land cover
    - protected areas
    - global
datasource:
  coverage: 'global lands and inland waters, reported by nation, state and county'
  resolution: unknown
  cadence: annual
  access: >-
    free web viewer, no login; rare and threatened species layers need an IBAT
    licence; data download not stated
  format: >-
    web map with ecological group, land cover class and conservation status
    views
  homepage: 'https://www.globalsafetynet.app/'
provenance:
  origin: agent
  sources:
    - title: Global Safety Net
      url: 'https://www.globalsafetynet.app/'
    - title: Global Safety Net v3 offers a new way to monitor nature worldwide
      url: 'https://www.oneearth.org/global-safety-net-3/'
    - title: >-
        Global Safety Net v3 launched to monitor the global extent and condition
        of natural land annually
      url: >-
        https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-safety-net-v3-launched-to-monitor-the-global-extent-and-condition-of-natural-land-annually-302887426.html
  created: '2026-10-17'
  reviewed: '2026-10-17'
  reviewed_by: 'Claude, from the sources listed'
  status: draft
import:
  source: openai-linkedin-scrape 2026-10-17
  id: DT052
  kind: data_platform
  family: observations_data_and_reconstruction
  priority: high
  verified: true
  posts:
    - P036
  posters:
    - One Earth
domains:
  - ecology
  - places
---
The Global Safety Net is an open scientific initiative of One Earth and Nature Data Lab, with collaborators including The Nature Conservancy, IIASA, Pristine Seas, Google Earth Engine, ESA and Global Mangrove Watch. Version 3, launched 23 September 2026, maps Areas of Importance for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services across the world's lands and inland waters by combining thirteen datasets and removing land converted to intensive human use, using The Nature Conservancy's Human Modification time series. Geospatial computation runs on Google Earth Engine; the UK firm Octophin built the application.

The viewer offers three views: ecological group (five priority categories such as rare and threatened species and wild and intact areas), land cover class (thirteen types from the ESA CCI land cover series plus inland surface water), and conservation status (protected areas, OECMs, documented conservation areas, and Indigenous and Traditional Territories). It reports conservation status and the rate of ecological degradation for each nation, state and county, framed against the Kunming-Montreal target of conserving 30% of land and inland waters by 2030.

The platform is free and needs no login; the rare and threatened species layers require an IBAT licence. This version is the first designed to be refreshed annually. Spatial resolution and bulk data download are not stated on the pages read.