GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility

🌍 Why countries need GBIF: lessons from Belgium A recently published policy brief details how Belgium has leveraged GBIF to support sustainable development, conservation and innovation for effective #biodiversity governance. 🔍 The report is available in Dutch, English, French and Romanian languages. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g7ADe4ub Belgian Biodiversity Platform Meise Botanic Garden Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences VLIZ - Flanders Marine Institute INBO (Research Institute for Nature and Forest - Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek) Natuurpunt University of Liège Ghent University

🌱 Wattle you know, it's #NationalWattleDay! 💖 Wattle is the common name for plants in the genus Acacia. While Acacias are found around the world, #Australia is home to more than 1,000 unique species. Wattles are deeply ingrained in Aussie culture, appearing on banknotes, the Coat of Arms, national sporting colours and even as the national flower! 🟢🟡 Acacia want to deep-dive into the data, you can explore more than 1.1 million wattle records through GBIF.org! 🔗https://gbif.link/wattle

⏰ ONE week left to submit your entry to the 2025 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge! 📅 Enter to win a share of €20,000! 💸 Entries may detail newly developed functional prototypes, tools and techniques or existing ones whose capabilities and features have been extended to leverage biodiversity data from the GBIF network. Who can enter the Challenge? 😎 individuals 💪teams 🏢 companies 🔍 governmental agencies from anywhere in the world! Submissions close 7 September 2025 🔗 Read more about the Challenge, past winners, eligibility and application requirements here: https://lnkd.in/gMMPyS_f

🚀 Volunteers.... ASSEMBLE! There are lots of ways to contribute to the GBIF network and the broader global biodiversity community, and the best part is you can participate from anywhere in the world! 🌏 🌻Explore opportunities for the following roles: - Ambassador - Mentor - Translator - GRSciColl editor - Trainer - Reviewer 🔗https://lnkd.in/g6bNEMEw

🫣 Ignorance is not bliss: Recent study maps knowledge gaps across #Orthoptera records 🦗 🔍Examining nearly 30,000 open-access species records, researchers constructed an “ignorance map” to identify areas of sparse or uneven orthoptera data coverage. 📊 Results: The richest and most accessible data were identified from North America and Central European regions, however, these trends may reflect disparities in overall access to taxonomists, data digitization mechanisms and funding across different regions for this taxon. Read more: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/d4vwbV8g #DataUse #ResearchImpact

You've been spotted! 👀🐆 The Jaguar Landscapes aka Paisaje Jaguar project led by Ministerio del Ambiente, Agua y Transición Ecológica de Ecuador, United Nations Development Program and the Wildlife Conservation Society, aims to conserve Ecuador's remaining jaguar populations, as well as their associated wildlife and habitats across three priority landscapes. 📸 Through camera traps, the project recently mobilized more than 3,600 records, with all images within in the Paisaje Jaguar dataset now accessible via GBIF! Data mobilization was supported by #GBIFEcuador. 💚 The project is financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), through The World Bank’s Global Wildlife Program (GWP). 🔗 https://lnkd.in/djJ8TRmw

👏 Well done #GBIFNZ on coordinating a fantastic initiative in bringing the biodiversity data community together to strengthen collaboration and use of open biodiversity data.

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⭐ Four projects have been selected for funding through the 2025 Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (CESP)! 🦉The annual grant programme encourages collaboration, mentoring and knowledge-sharing across the GBIF Participant network, with the aim of strengthening biodiversity data mobilization capacity and skills. 🌎 Selected projects are led by #GBIFUruguay, #GBIFSweden, #GBIFZimbabwe and #GBIFUzbekistan! Read more:🔗https://lnkd.in/dpXXrz39

🗺️ You don't need a map to find the next GBIF #DataUseClub, just follow the registration link below! Join Matt Blissett and John Waller from the Secretariat for our next Data Use Club practical session: Making occurrence maps. 🦀 The session will cover: ▪️Data quality issues to consider before making a map ▪️Using the GBIF Map API ▪️Downloading and generating maps locally ▪️Downloading occurrence cubes 📍 23 September 2025 15:00 - 16:30 CEST 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dimx2sSH * The session will be recorded, and the recording will be made available after the event