Le premier appel à projet BID attribue près d’un million d’euros au financement de 23 projets africains
Les bénéficiaires du programme financé par l’Union Européenne représentent 34 organisations situées dans 20 pays d’Afrique
GBIF news
2016 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge to focus on data gaps and biases
This year's incentive prize will build on efforts to understand, examine and address gaps and biases in open-access biodiversity data from the GBIF network.
Task group targets data on invasive alien species
A new task group will make recommendations on how data shared through the GBIF network can best serve the needs of research into invasive alien species.
Africa survey: Capacity and information critical for meeting data needs to inform policy
Data holders and policymakers surveyed about the availability and use of biodiversity data in sub-Saharan Africa clearly recognize the importance of biodiversity data to support their work and indicate needs for increased technical capacity and additional information resources.
Call for nominations opens for 2016 Young Researchers Award
The GBIF Secretariat invites the nomination of graduate students for the 2016 Young Researchers Award, which seeks to foster innovative research and discovery that make use of GBIF-mediated data.
GBIF nodes staff earn first digital badges for data publishing
The GBIF Secretariat has awarded digital badges to 10 participants who completed training on biodiversity data publishing support and promotion.
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.
New report offers recommendations on improving GBIF-mediated data for distribution modelling
A group of experts tasked with helping to improve the usefulness of GBIF-mobilized data for distribution modelling research have presented their insights in a just-published report.
Denmark’s Zoological Museum publishes 18 years of moth monitoring observations
The Zoological Museum in Copenhagen has published data from an 18-year roof-top monitoring programme that collects insects with light traps.
Experts offer recommendations for improving GBIF-mediated data for agrobiodiversity research
Experts have completed a report providing more than 50 recommendations for enhancing the coverage, completeness and usefulness of GBIF-mobilized data for research in agrobiodiversity.