GBIF Asia members, partners and regional representatives to meet in Viet Nam
Participants to strengthen engagement, enhance capacity for mobilizing and using biodiversity data among countries and institutions of the region
GBIF news about Asia
New call for data mobilization and capacity projects in Asia
The second call under the Biodiversity Information Fund for Asia (BIFA) programme invites proposals for projects that fill data gaps and enhance data publishing capacity in the region.
BIFA programme supports four projects to benefit 14 countries in Asia
The Biodiversity Information Fund for Asia (BIFA) has awarded €106,000 to four projects that support the data needs of the region's researchers and policy makers.
Private sector holds key data to help preserve Gulf and West Asia ecosystems
By unlocking vital information about West Asian ecosystems, an upcoming workshop in Oman seeks to improve knowledge about the impacts of development and improve decision-making.
New GBIF fund targets biodiversity information needs in Asia
The Biodiversity Information Fund for Asia will use a financial contribution from Japan's Ministry of the Environment to support regional data-related activities that address key research and policy needs.
Capacity project generates new guide on camera trapping
A new guide that helps generate data for conservation policy using camera trap images is among the major products of a three-year capacity-building project involving GBIF and partners in India and Norway.
Watch the GBIF Public Symposium 2014
Held in New Delhi in September, the GBIF Public Symposium featured speakers outlining recent developments in biodiversity informatics and highlighting innovative research uses of GBIF-mediated data. Watch on-demand videos of the live-stream coverage.
Indian minister opens GBIF Governing Board meeting
Indian Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar, has stated India’s commitment to developing a robust digital infrastructure for biodiversity data at the opening of GB21in New Delhi.
Indian GBIF award winner explores data from social networking
A PhD student from India looking at the potential for social networking sites to provide valuable biodiversity data has been selected as a winner of the GBIF Young Researchers Award.
Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes historic plant collection on GBIF.org
The Biodiversity Committee, Chinese Academy of Sciences has published the first portion of its historic plant collection—a dataset consisting of 163,199 species occurrence records from Yunnan province in southwest China.