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With this seven-month, $59,951 grant, GBIF and its Brazilian partner CRIA are inventorying biodiversity data for the Amazon basin. The survey covers Brazil, Suriname, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia and will identify the services, data standards, and technologies that will be needed to integrate biodiversity information across the region.
Ultimately, it is hoped that these tools will facilitate resource-management decisions and lead to biodiversity conservation in the Amazon Basin, which is a focus of one of the Moore Foundation's major initiatives, known as the AAI, or Andes-Amazon Initiative.
The AAI is also making efforts to improve communications in order to facilitate the work among organisations, collaboration among different sectors, and public awareness and support for biodiversity conservation campaigns.
The AAI currently finances conservation work through a number of local and international nongovernmental conservation organizations, research and academic institutions, and government agencies.
The project has now started. Please contribute to the survey
and fill the questionnaire about
data from the Amazon region.
See http://www.gbif.org/News/NEWS1116606264
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