Transcript annex 24 - ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity

APBON Potential Products
2014 and onwards
Suggestions
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Regional Red List
KBAs
Essential Biodiversity Variables
Support for work on Mosses
Publishing data papers
Regional Red List
• Encourage Asia Pacific Countries to
establish their National Redlists as
instruments of prioritizing
biodiversity conservation and
publish in National CHM
• Components:
– Capacity building
• Taxonomy
• Data Entry
• Conservation Assessment
Regional Red List
• Components continued
- Monitor conservation threats (at national
level using species data; conduct as part of
conservation assessment)
• Character:
– Have, as a minimum a common database
structure (Darwin Core)
– Include nationally elected categories
including ‘rare’ in addition to Darwin Core
– Conservative, in preference to high integrity
information
Key Biodiversity Areas
• Encourage Asia Pacific Countries to identify
KBAs using their national red lists as well as
IBA, IPA an other important areas as base of
map-based site selection
• Can constitute one APBON contribution to
IPBES, CBD and the GEOBO (bon in a box)
• Is a cost effective means for AP countries to
identify particularly sensitive and ecologically
important areas
Key Biodiversity Areas
Needs
 Agree on the methodology
 Think about the mechanics of how to
implement KBA selection process at national,
subregional and regional level
Essential Biodiversity Variables
Essential Biodiversity
Variables: Purpose
- To establish baseline reference to understand and
document (quality of) changes and impacts
- Select clear variables to which everyone could agree
to
- May be an important APBON (soft) product to feed
to IPBES, and may raise visibility of APBON
- May be supported by MoE Korea
Essential Biodiversity
Variables: Challenges
- More difficult to identify due to complexity, local
occurrence, existing impacts
- Difficult to use global tools
- Ecosystem services are difficult to measure esp on
the ground
- Best way to go is through conservation assessment
- Less tangible process and outputs compared to KBAs
Essential Biodiversity
Variables: Suggestions
- Have a regional EBV
- Network with the developers of the Global EBVs to inform regional
EBV identification process by identifying APBON members to attend
EBV discussions
- Engage in further discussions
- Some initial suggestions
- Monitor rate of species extinction (at national level using
species data; conduct as part of conservation assessment)
- Monitor rate of conservation threats
- Use of satellite images (and time scale) to see what is happening
regionally
Support work on Mosses
• East Asiatic database existing, interactive
database under construction
• Workshop
– to introduce Pteridophytes, Bryophytes and Ferns
– Introduction to biodiversity
• Role in ecosystems, forest ecology
– Indicators related to Climate change
– Practical uses such as in vertical gardening, moss walls
• Identification of species to invite interest in these
species
• Strategize from an applications point of view
Data Paper Preparation:
Collaboration among APBON
Membership?
Tools are available online and Yu Huang and Kit could support
individual and group processes
Needs
• APBON to prioritize geographies and themes
• APBON members to collaborate on preparing data papers
• Can the taxonomists in the room start at least 2 data papers
for 2014 as a presentation to COP 12 (c/o Pensoft?) India,
Malaysia
• Anyone interested to publish through GBIF IPT tool?
Additional Suggestions
 Agree to open existing databases for access to data
 Dr. Mangal Man Shakya offered to contribute a draft
paper of APBON governance including membership
 Another APBON workshop to discuss products
outside of databases and data products
Time Frame for Products
Priority
Number
Product
Activities
Phase 1
(1-2 yrs)
Phase 2
(2-5 yrs)
Phase 3
(2020)
Regional Red
List
Capacity Building,
Red Listing
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Key
Biodiversity
Areas
Capacity Building
KBA process
implementation
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EBVs
Identify Key indices
for AP Region,
Remote Sensing
Time Series,
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Work on
Mosses
Workshop
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Data
published
Publish data papers
/ data sets
(Malaysia , India)
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Next Steps
• Ideas from the 5th APBON to be
presented to the Steering Committee
and the Working Groups
– Project preparation
– Team constitution
– Fund raising and
– Execution
• To be packaged as a proposal to MoE
Korea for potential funding
• Next APBON Meeting – Nepal offers to
host after COP 12, end 2014 / early 2015
Other Upcoming Meetings where
APBON could be highlighted
• East Asian Federation of Ecological Societies
Meeting, 9 – 11 April, 2014, Hainan, China
• GEOSS Meetings
– April / May Japan, Discussion on EBVs
• SBSTTA18 Meeting, May 2014 (Montreal,
Canada)
• GBIF21 Mid Sept 2014, New Delhi, India
• CBDCOP 12 Korea 6-17 October, 2014
– APBON Side Event
• World Parks Congress, Nov 12 – 19, 2014
Sydney, Australia
• December 2014, APBON, Nepal (proposed)