How to use this page to find Biologically Important Forests?

BIF Mapping can be used as important source of information for scientific purposes (e.g. potential habitats of rare species, migration corridors, etc.), tourism development and education. In particular, however, the mapping's chief goal is to provide strong ecological premises for restoration of ecological connections and functioning forest landscapes at the continental scale.

Map consist of "base layers" and "overlay layers". Base layers are satellite or topographic maps and overlay layers are BIFM criteria.
You can select the best base layer for your area and best suited for your needs. Then you can select criteria.

Default action after mouse clicks on map image is map navigation (panning, zooming). You can switch mode to "criteria selection". After that, mouse clicks and dragging will encircle area with criteria to calculate weighted average on them.

Base layers are downloaded on-line from external sources (Web Map Servers working as map providers). Sometimes empty rectangles (broken images) may be overlayed on the map instead of regular content, what means that some external source (one of map servers) is not responding.

IF MAP IS NOT WORKING PROPERLY PLEASE PRESS F-5 TO REFRESH A PAGE OR CTRL-F5 TO CLEAR YOUR BROWSER CACHE AND GET FRESH VERSION OF MAP APPLICATION FROM INTERNET SERVER.