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Call for participation: Mobilising open access biodiversity data in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

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We invite institutions and individuals working on biodiversity in the Hindu Kush Himalaya to participate in a survey designed to:

Deadline: 28 February 2025
Countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan
 

Why participate

Your input through this survey will help us:

 

Who can participate

Researchers, academics, museums, herbaria, research organisations, government agencies, and citizen-scientists/science networks across the HKH region.
 

About the regional training

The regional training is co-organised by ICIMOD, Zoological Survey of India, Bhutan’s National Biodiversity Centre,; Forest Action Nepal, and National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It will cover:

The training is supported by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility’s Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (GBIF-CESP) with co-financing from ICIMOD.
 

Eligibility

Participants must:

Other selection criteria:

Selection will be based on the individual responses. We will ensure balance of geography, gender and thematic representation.
 

Background

The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region, rich in biodiversity from four global biodiversity hotspots, faces significant threats from land-use change, habitat degradation, climate change, pollution, and invasive species. Despite advancements in biodiversity research across HKH countries, there is a notable gap in awareness, capacity, and open access biodiversity data from the region. While the results and findings from research are widely shared, the actual data underpinning studies is hardly shared or published, and sometimes not even properly stored.

The knowledge about distribution, occurrence, and status of biodiversity is a pre-requisite to addressing the current biodiversity crisis whether it is habitat destruction, loss of genetic diversity, or species threatened with extinction.

Free and open access to biodiversity information supports sustainable development interventions relating to biodiversity and enhanced ecosystem services linked to human wellbeing.

Mobilising biodiversity data on taxonomy, geospatial and temporal distribution, collection information, genetic information and other traits of species will enable wider use in further research, conservation efforts and policymaking, while also recognising and providing proper attribution to the sources, data owners and data collectors.

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