Biodiversity Indicators Program Dashboard
The Biodiversity Indicators Dashboard Program focuses on supporting national, regional, and global institutions with tools for developing streamlined biodiversity monitoring and reporting systems that track progress toward biodiversity-related targets. The program meets the increasing need for capacity development in biodiversity monitoring, reporting, and indicators among national governments, regional bodies, and UN organizations, utilizing the Colorado Natural Heritage Program's (CNHP) and NatureServe's scientific and technological expertise. Currently, the program primarily supports the reporting and tracking of biodiversity-related targets under international agreements (such as the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework), regional agreements (such as the Arctic Council), and national agreements (such as national development plans and National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans). The program’s currently funded work is in The Bahamas, Namibia, and South Korea.
National and Regional Biodiversity Indicators Dashboards Aid Evidence-based Decisions :
CNHP within the NatureServe Network supports the national and regional governments' uptake of biodiversity indicators and high-resolution spatial reference layers by partnering with several intergovernmental entities to implement regional biodiversity dashboards with improved spatial and temporal biodiversity layers. These national and regional partnerships have spanned continents around the world. Regional partnerships have included the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (a consortium of ten member states including Vietnam), the Arctic Council (an intergovernmental forum of eight Arctic states), and the Tropical Andes (Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru) while national partnerships have included those with Uganda, Ghana, Namibia, The Bahamas, and South Korea. These partnership efforts include producing and facilitating access to new biodiversity information products, i.e. spatial biodiversity assessments and biodiversity indicators to inform a diversity of conservation measures including scenario and protected areas planning, local to national scale impact assessment, target tracking and evaluation of conservation investment impact.
Ongoing Projects:
- Namibia:
The NatureServe Network is supporting the University of Namibia in the development of biodiversity indicators, a MEA Tracking Platform.
- Bahamas:
Colorado State University’s Colorado Natural Heritage Program (CNHP) is working with the Department of Environmental Planning and Protection (DEPP) to develop a Spatial Biodiversity Information System (SBIS) of The Bahamas. The SBIS is an ArcGIS Online (AGOL) interactive online platform designed to facilitate effective management of protected areas and adjacent land and seascapes. This platform visualizes available data to support near and long-term conservation planning and tracks performance metrics for management plans.
- South Korea:
The Korean National Institute of Ecology (NIE), in collaboration with CNHP within NatureServe Network, is designing and implementing a National Indicator Reporting and Assessment System that streamlines target tracking, assessment, and reporting to supports the Ministry of Environment’s efforts to revise its National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan and position it to deliver and report on progress towards national targets under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF).
Staff :
Vinamra Mathur
Director, Biodiversity Indicators Program
(970) 4910-466
vinamra.mathur@colostate.edu
