GBIF Secretariat launches ‘Content Needs Assessment Survey’

GBIF Secretariat launches ‘Content Needs Assessment Survey’.

Through this announcement we request stakeholders and users of primary biodiversity data to participate in the Survey. The objective of this survey is to assess the user needs for primary biodiversity data. The major purpose of this exercise is to identify the gaps in biodiversity data presently accessible through GBIF, and make recommendations on data mobilisation strategies to bridge the gap between...

PROTAbase connected

African plant species through the NLBIF portal: PROTAbase connected.

Plant Resources of Tropical Africa (PROTA) is an international, not-for-profit foundation. It intends to synthesize the dispersed information on the approximately 7,000 useful plants of Tropical Africa and to provide wide access to the information through Webdatabases, Books, CD-Rom’s and Special Products. The direct target groups for the PROTA information are the decision-makers in government, private sector, research,...

Towards a Dutch national Life Watch network

Scientific meeting and discussion, 10th of June 2008, Amsterdam.

Life Watch is a new instrument for biodiversity research. This European large-scale research infrastructure creates a virtual environment for the processing, integration and analysis of biodiversity data for scientific and societal use. Life Watch will be constructed as a distributed network of databases, research facilities and service centers in the different participating European...

Fears that Sumatran tiger will be extinct in 2015

Jakarta - The endangered Sumatran tiger in Indonesia's Riau province is predicted to become extinct in next five years due to illegal hunting and habitat losses as a major threat for their survival, an activist said on Sunday. With the conditions of...

Conservation from space: Landscape diversity helps to conserve insects

Rugged, hilly landscapes with a range of different habitat types can help maintain more stable butterfly populations and thus aid their conservation, according to new findings. This has implications for how we might design landscapes better to help conserve species.

Loss of species hits economy; new U.N. goals needed

OSLO (Reuters) - Losses of animal and plant species are an increasing economic threat and the world needs new goals for protecting nature after failing to achieve a 2010 U.N. target of slowing extinctions, experts said Friday.

Wayward walrus sighted in western Denmark

Copenhagen - A walrus, the large, flippered, marine mammal that lives in the Arctic region, has been sighted in western Denmark, reports said Friday. The walrus apparently landed near the Nissum fjord on the west coast of Jutland - some 2,000 kilomet...

Giant at bay

Asia's 'living fossil' at risk from modern world pressures