SPECIES
species, kept current
RESOLUTION
any terrestrial site, down to 300 m
TIME SERIES
annual time series
LAYERS
pressure and service layers
THE SCIENCE BEHIND IT
Invented by Dr. Walter Jetz at the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, after 15 years of research.
SUPPORTED BY
WINNER OF
BIRDS
POLLINATION
MAMMALS
PEST CONTROL
REPTILES
SOIL
AMPHIBIANS
WATER FLOW
FRESHWATER FISH
WATER QUALITY
TREES
EROSION CONTROL
BUTTERFLIES
STORM MITIGATION
DRAGONFLIES
CLIMATE REGULATION
ANTS
HABITAT CONNECTIVITY
HOW OUR DATA CONNECTS BUSINESS TO BIODIVERSITY
Corn is guarded by bats like the big brown bat, which eat the adult beetles of the corn rootworm, one of the crop’s costliest pests. Cocoa is pollinated by an insect the size of a pinhead. The water a factory draws is filtered by the wetland downstream and held by the forest above it. Pollinated crops, clean water, fertile soil, a stable climate: none of it arrives on its own. It is delivered by species, and species are disappearing.
When they go, it shows up in yields, water allocations, sourcing costs and the P&L long before it shows up in a sustainability report. Whether you grow it, source it or run a plant that depends on it, most organizations can’t see it coming, because nobody is counting the species.
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THE SCIENCE
Corn rootworm
Larvae eat corn roots
CONTROLLED BY
←
Big brown bat
Eptesicus fuscus
PROTECTS
→
Corn yield
Price · P&L
rootworm larvae prevented in one summer by a colony of just 150 big brown bats
Whitaker 1995, American Midland Naturalist
02
PRESSURE ON BATS IS BUILDING ACROSS THE CORN BELT
Corn
Bat habitat
Greatest pressure
03
× EVERY SPECIES THAT GUARDS THE CROP
Eptesicus fuscus
Lasiurus borealis
Lasiurus cinereus
Myotis lucifugus
Nycticeius humeralis
Perimyotis subflavus
Tadarida brasiliensis
Hirundo rustica
Tachycineta bicolor
Progne subis
Sialia sialis
Agelaius phoeniceus
Chordeiles minor
Chaetura pelagica
Myotis septentrionalis
Lasionycteris noctivagans
Charadrius vociferus
Coccinella septempunctata
Harpalus pensylvanicus
Chrysoperla carnea
+ thousands more species, mapped every year
= corn risk, predicted.
RISK · PER SOURCING AREA
All of our commodities run on nature.
in crop losses across US counties hit by bat die-offs, 2006–2017
of annual crop output exposed to pollinator loss
rise in cocoa prices from the start of 2023 to the December 2024 peak, as West African harvests failed
more damaged corn kernels where bats are kept out; their pest control is worth about $1B a year to growers
COUNTED, ONE SPECIES AT A TIME
01 / 06
Three in four of the world’s crop types depend on pollinators like this one.
02 / 06
Predators keep the rodents that eat crops in check.
03 / 06
Wading birds tell you whether a wetland still filters water.
04 / 06
Amphibians are the first to go when water quality drops.
05 / 06
Reptiles need connected habitat. Fragment it and they vanish.
06 / 06
Trees hold the soil, the water and most of the species.
WHAT WE PROMISE
Where to act first
Which site to build on. Where to put regenerative money. Which parcels matter for a corridor. SAVE ranks every place by what’s at stake for species, and says what pressure to reduce.
“Where the bang for the buck would be greatest.”
Prove it got better
Other tools tell you where. The Species Habitat Index tells you whether it changed, and why: attributable habitat gain or loss for every species, every year since 2001.
“Track positive trends of impactful projects.”
Defend it when challenged
Peer-reviewed methods, 15 years of research behind the model, indicators adopted into the UN Global Biodiversity Framework. Every number traces back to the species behind it.
“Make sure we can prove what we’re saying if we get challenged.”
ONE FOUNDATION, FIVE QUESTIONS
WHO USES IT
BUILT TO PLUG IN
Draw a boundary, or give us a point and a radius. The same fields come back whether it’s one farm or a company universe, so the result slots into your risk model, your GIS, or the dashboard your board already reads.
API
On-demand scores for any polygon, machine-readable.
PLATFORM
An interactive dashboard, from portfolio score down to a single species.
WORKBOOK
Every score and species list in a spreadsheet, ready for your own models.
DATA LICENSE
Per-asset fields in your own systems, or multi-client terms to embed and resell.
assess.sh
ALREADY IN USE
SITE SCREENING
A global energy major screens new sites with it.
SOURCING RISK
One of the largest agribusiness traders uses RISK to assess its global sourcing footprint.
NATIONAL SYSTEMS
A national government runs its entire biodiversity information system on it, from protected areas to permitting.
facilities ranked by one global company
reforestation sites screened by one investment manager
researchers and NGOs working on mol.org
THE SCIENCE BEHIND IT
of research behind the Map of Life software, which Map of Life Solutions licenses exclusively from Yale University.
countries and territories covered, on one consistent method, so results compare anywhere.
The Species Habitat Index is a component indicator of the Global Biodiversity Framework. The EBV framework it runs on was co-authored by our Chief Science Advisor.
Second place, XPRIZE Rainforest: drones, new sensors and geospatial AI surveying a rainforest in 24 hours.
MAPS TO
TNFD LEAP
CSRD / ESRS E4
SBTN
GBF Targets 1–4 & 15
EU A-TRACK
AN OPEN CALL