Co leads of the Genetic Composition Working Group, Sean Hoban and Maggie Hunter led 31 authors from 18 countries on a publication to Biological Conservation. This paper (open access here) contains commentary and recommended changes to the Convention on Biological Diversity draft post 2020 framework, to ensure all aspects of
Monitoring Ecosystem Services: From global to local
Last July 8, the Ecosystem Services Working Group session took place within the framework of the GEO BON All Hands Meeting Conference 2020, in which more than 50 members participated. The discussions revolved around analysing the links between ES monitoring at the global and local scale. Although monitoring of global
GEO BON Genetic Composition WG publishes Science Letter on CBD Zero Draft Recommendations
Co leads of the Genetic Composition Working Group, Sean Hoban and Anna MacDonald, were among 21 authors (including several other GEO BON members and IUCN Specialist Group members) on a letter to Science published March 6 here. The letter is titled “Post 2020 Goals Overlook Genetic Diversity”. It concerns an
Essential Biodiversity Variables 2020 Initiative (EBV2020) for Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Conservation
The EBV2020 is a GEO BON initiative to showcase the use of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) from global to sub-global levels integrating in situ and remote sensing observations to generate policy-relevant data products. The first workshop in October 2019 (SERC, USA) brought together the teams that are generating EBV relevant products across six classes