GEO BON is continuously building up its network. GEO BON has more than 2500 individual members from 134 different countries, including scientists, managers and practitioners active in biodiversity observation. Over 3000 people around the world receive our newsletter that is published four times a year and this number has been increasing at a rate of 300 people a year. GEO BON invites all parties to be part of the GEO BON community shaping the future biodiversity observation. GEO BON fully depend on the active collaboration of members as well as the entire biodiversity community.
More information about our Members can be found on members.geobon.org
There are 4 ways to get engaged with GEO BON:
1. Become an individual member
Individuals can sign up to the GEO BON newsletter to receive regular updates and news from the GEO BON Secretariat.
2. Become a member of a Working Group
The five Working Groups are the core of GEO BON and you are warmly welcome to join. Working Groups develop and implement specific thematic aspects of GEO BON. Please contact a WG chair and express your interest in the activities of the WG. Any expert may participate in a Working Group, pending approval by the WG leads based on declaration of interest and submission of Curriculum Vitae. WG leads can be suggested by the Managing Committee (MC), but are elected by the members of the WG and confirmed by the Implementation Committee (IC).
3. Join a regional or thematic Biodiversity Observation Network (BON)
The regional and thematic BON’s are very active parts of GEO BON and you are warmly welcome to join. Please contact the chair of a BON and express your interest in their activities. BON’s develop and implement specific thematic aspects of GEO BON at a regional scale or for a specific topic. Learn more at the pages of the specific BON’s.
Any expert may participate in a BON, pending approval by the BON’s leads based on declaration of interest and submission of Curriculum Vitae. BON leads can be suggested by the MC, but are elected by the members of the BON and confirmed by the IC.
For more information in our Biodiversity Observation Network please don’t hesitate to contact the GEO BON Secretariat.
4. Become a national BON
The GEO BON network is structured as Working Groups (WGs) as well as national, regional and thematic Biodiversity Observation Networks (BONs). GEO BON actively facilitates the development of BONs by building capacity and engaging stakeholders (particularly national governments, institutes, scientists and practitioner). The focus here is on the development of national BONs, which can act as national units and networks bringing biodiversity change data and information together. The development of national BONs is also directly facilitated through the application of BON in a Box.
China, Colombia and France are national BONs already functioning. The Asia Pacific BON (AP-BON), the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (Arctic BON), the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) and the Freshwater BON are existing or developing regional or thematic BONs under the GEO BON umbrella.