About 30 participants from Angolan museums, universities and national environment, agriculture and fisheries agencies attended a workshop on biodiversity data sharing in Luanda, in September.
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.
The West African nation of Guinea has become the 38th Voting Participant in the GBIF network, having joined as an Associate Participant in March 2005.
The GBIF Secretariat has published its annual report for 2014, describing progress made in meeting the goals of the 2014-2016 work programme.
GBIF lançará uma primeira chamada a propostas BID para a região Africana em Julho de 2015. Um total de €900,000 serão atribuídos a esta chamada.
GBIF lancera un premier appel à propositions BID pour la région Afrique en septembre 2015. Le montant total attribué à cet appel sera de €900 000.
GBIF will issue the first call for proposals for its BID programme in the African region in September 2015, with a potential total of €900,000 in funding assigned to this call.
Experts seek to improve fitness of GBIF-mobilized data in agrobiodiversity and distribution modelling research.
Fatima Parker-Allie will seek to develop a curriculum, improve data quality for marine fishes, and model regional distribution of commercial fish species.
Gonzalo Pinilla Buitrago will rely on GBIF-mediated records to analyse species distribution patterns.