It provides accessible tools for calculating Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) and indicators, helping scientists, policymakers, and conservation practitioners prioritize monitoring areas, understand biodiversity trends, and track progress toward the targets of the GBF. BON in a Box automates the process…
Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and the Nature Positive Journey
Recording available. When: JANUARY 25th 2024 Time: 09:00 to 10:15 AM EST (03:00 to 04:14 PM CET) Nature is the basis of the functioning of society, general well-being, and the economy. However, despite warnings from the scientific community for several decades, the degradation of nature is accelerating due to
GEO BON has a new Executive Secretary! Welcome Katie Millette
As the incoming Executive Secretary, I am excited to continue the momentum that GEO BON has generated over its three years in Montreal. I have been lucky to have learned from Adriana Radulovici—our departing Executive Secretary—over the two years I spent as GEO BON’s Science Officer. I am very happy
EcoCode – Modelling Life on Earth
The EcoCode working group aims to synthesize, integrate and advance modelling efforts in support of the GEO-BON mission and to push for an international effort to project biodiversity responses to environmental changes…
GEO BON at COP 15
The second part of the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP 10), Fourth meeting
GEO BON welcomes Veronica Wrobel as Communications and Engagement Officer
I am a firm believer that communicating science effectively is just as important as research itself. I am therefore very excited to be joining the GEO BON team as communications and engagement officer and be able to contribute to its mission of promoting biodiversity science and conservation worldwide. My background
Webinars on Genetic diversity – 26 July 2021
Download compiled presentations here. Watch the recording on the GEO BON YouTube channel. Agenda Time (ET) Topic Speaker Affiliation 9:00-9:10 Introduction Jillian Campbell Convention on Biological Diversity 9:10-9:20 Why genetic diversity is important, and fundamental concepts including Ne (effective size) Linda Laikre Stockholm University (Sweden) 9:20-9:30 Explaining genetic diversity indicators
Webinars on Species Populations and Area-based Conservation – 12 July 2021
Download compiled presentations here. Watch the recording on the GEO BON YouTube channel. Agenda Time (ET) Topic Speaker Affiliation 9:00-9:05 Introduction Jillian Campbell Convention on Biological Diversity 9:05-9:50 Species Population Essential Biodiversity Variables Melodie McGeoch La Trobe University (Australia) Indicator policy relevance, calculation, adaptation, and use Walter Jetz Yale University