Veronica Wrobel – GEO BON

Essential Ecosystem Service Variables for Monitoring Progress Towards Sustainability

Monitoring Essential Ecosystem Service Variables (EESVs) can provide a comprehensive picture of how links between nature and people are changing.…

February 17, 2022

GEO BON contributes to an updated synthesis for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework

The GEO BON Secretariat and several of its network members were busy since November 2021 and over the holidays working…

February 8, 2022

Include biodiversity representation indicators in area-based conservation targets

Authors: Walter Jetz, Jennifer McGowan, D. Scott Rinnan, Hugh P. Possingham, Piero Visconti, Brian O’Donnell and Maria Cecilia Londoño-Murcia Abstract:…

December 20, 2021

Freshwater BON elects a third co-Chair

We are pleased to announce the election of Dr. Jennifer Lento as co-chair of the Freshwater Biodiversity Observation Network (FW…

December 8, 2021

GEO Week 2021

GEO Week presented activities taking place under the GEO work programme. This week-long event (22-26 November 2021) highlighted how earth…

November 23, 2021

Climate-influenced nutrient flows and threats to the biodiversity of the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System (BZ-SDG)

Myles Phillips and Kenneth Gale with WCS-Belize taking water quality measurements with a YSI near the mouth of the Belize River.

The Climate-influenced Nutrient Flows and Threats to the Biodiversity of the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System (BZ-SDG) project, supported by…

October 15, 2021

The growing promise of community-based monitoring and citizen science

Over recent decades, community-based environmental monitoring (often called “co-created citizen science”) has exploded in popularity. A special section in BioScience…

October 15, 2021

GEO BON’s Participation in the Third Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG 3)

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) continued its meetings attended by Parties and observers during the summer of 2021. The…

September 8, 2021

Biology students make lemonade out of pandemic lemons by improving accessibility of genetic data from wild animal and plant species

Students and biodiversity scientists whose research was upended by the pandemic held an online datathon to attach dates and locations…

August 25, 2021

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Author: Veronica Wrobel