BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

How to plan for Nature?

Testing workshop

Camp Reinsehlen, 25 – 27 January 2012

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

How to plan for nature? Part 1

– By Ben Delbaere– Senior Programme Manager, ECNC

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

What is biodiversity?

Do you know?

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

So, what is biodiversity?

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

CBD definition

"Biological diversity" means the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems.

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Building blocks

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Species

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Charismatic species

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Less charismatic species

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Species – new discoveries

Horse fly - Scaptia beyonceae

Smallest vertebrate species on Earth – Paedophryne amauensis

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local BiodiversityHabitat: species’ living environment

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local BiodiversityHabitats: environmental conditions

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Habitats: also man made

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local BiodiversityEcosystems

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Genes

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Why is biodiversity important?

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local BiodiversityBiodiversity is the basis for our food...

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Valuing biodiversity

The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital: USD 33 trillion per year

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

How to measure biodiversity?

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Biodiversity indicators

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Indicator harmonization

CBD Headline indicators Streamlining European Biodiversity Indicators National indicators