A new partnership between GBIF and the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna Working Group (CAFF) aims to improve the quality and scope of Arctic biodiversity information available to science and society.
The GBIF Secretariat is now accepting proposals for funding under the 2016 Capacity Enhancement Support Programme, which seeks to enhance the long-term capacity of GBIF Participants through collaborative projects.
The deadline for submitting initial concept notes from sub-Saharan Africa was 20 November 2015. GBIF and its evaluation panel have invited a selected number of applicants to prepare full proposals, which are due on 26 Feb 2016.
NOTE: Submission of full project proposals is by invitation only, following the evaluation of concept notes.
A data publishing workshop, jointly organized by GBIF Uruguay, SiB Colombia, SiB Brazil and Canadensys, helped train 24 data technicians, mostly from government, and from the nongovernmental sector and academia.
GBIF invites interested users to send comments and feedback on the Best Practice Guide for Data Gap Analysis for Biodiversity Stakeholders.
GBIF Malawi held a consultation with key national stakeholder institutions to introduce and seek commitment for the new node’s activities.
Videos are now online for recent symposium and panel discussion, 'Frontiers of Biodiversity Informatics and Modelling Species Distributions', hosted in New York by AMNH.
Representatives of ten organizations from Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Senegal and France met to discuss the establishment of a coordinated alert and response network on invasive species in the sub-Saharan region.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has become the latest country to join the GBIF network.