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BINU - Experience and Guidance Biodiversity Indicators Experience booklet launched - 03 Mar 05

The BINU project has launched a 20-page booklet on its experience and lessons learned in developing biodiversity indicators for national use.

This collaborative project, sponsored by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and others, will develop biodiversity indicators to support planning and decision-making at the national level in four participating countries. In each country national partners will develop and test several indicators for a single focal ecosystem, using an iterative process of consultation, inventory and synthesis of existing data. The project countries and partners are:

Ecuador - The Ministry of Environment and EcoCiencia will focus on forest and terrestrial ecosystems;
Kenya - The Kenya Wildlife Service will focus on wetland ecosystems;
Philippines - The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau will focus on coastal and marine ecosystems;
Ukraine - ULRMC and the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources will focus on agro-biodiversity.
Photos of project teams are available on the contacts page.

The successful approaches identified by the project will be disseminated to strengthen the capacities of other countries, and to support global and regional development of indicators of biological diversity under the Convention on Biological Diversity. The project will run from July 2002 to June 2005.

The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre co-ordinates and provides technical support to the project, in conjunction with RIVM (National Institute of Public Health and the Environment of the Netherlands).

Financial support is provided by UNEP-GEF, participating governments and institutions, and UK-DEFRA, UK-DFID, UNEP, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Swiss Agency for Environment, Forests and Landscapes.

The full project document can be seen as a 35 page Adobe Acrobat pdf file.

Interim lessons learned.
Biodiversity Indicators for National Use: Experience and Guidance

Contact: info@unep-wcmc.org