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BIODIVERSITY EVIDENCE

integrated, coalition-led support systems for biodiversity planning, policy and management

Biodiversity Evidence Systems - also called Biodiversity Early Warning Systems - enable local people, resource users and decisionmakers to track species and ecosystems in space and time for better policy, planning and management. 
 
They can be adapted and scaled up (and down) from a successful model in southern Africa - a region of high biodiversity, but highly variable data richness and resolution.
 
They inform public policy and local management with co-produced, near-real-time data on environmental change, and just as importantly, they democratize the process of environmental change detection and adaptation.

A summary of South Africa's surprising system based on citizen science and fabulous statistical tools

What the coalition and structure of a biodiversity early warning system could look like

Imperfect data and debatable analyses in a curve-ball society

Working across disciplines and groups to co-generate knowledge of biodiversity

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The Conservation Biology Institute - an internationally active 22-year-old high-tech nonprofit based in Corvallis, Oregon - delivers scientific expertise, geospatial data management, climate analysis and modeling to support conservation and recovery of biological diversity. It does this via applied research, education, planning, and community service.

CBI is building on a successful model system previously built in South Africa by its Chief Science and Policy Officer, Phoebe Barnard, formerly of the South African National Biodiversity Institute and University of Cape Town, to scale up (and down) biodiversity early warning systems in different regions and countries to support better conservation policy, planning and management.

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