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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