Biodiversity Meets Data

🌍It's World Nature Conservation Day!
🌳Natura 2000, the world’s largest network of protected areas, supports over 1,200 threatened species and 230 habitat types. It provides ecosystem services worth €200–300 billion yearly, benefiting people and nature.
👉 environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/natur...

Interested in learning new data skills? 🧑‍💻 DataCamp 2025 is now open to all GBIF users!
Get free access to online courses in R, Python, SQL, machine learning, and more.
👉 Learn more: www.gbif.org/news/5Fkpxvd...

🌿 GBIF released a new guide for publishing biological survey data, helping data holders structure and make their data openly accessible. 📊
Community review open until 20 July 2025 🗓️
🔗 gbif.link/survey-dat...

👏Congratulations to Bulgaria on joining GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility as a Voting Participant!
🔎 GBIF users can currently explore more than two million species occurrences in Bulgaria shared by 378 publishers in 46 countries. 🌱

🌍 Upcoming BMD Workshops: Explore practical data needs for natural site management & help shape a "Single Access Point" for biodiversity monitoring & analysis.
Нosted by Eurosite.
📍Lithuania (Sept 9–11): www.eurosite.org/event/eurosi...
📍Sweden (Sept 29–Oct 2): www.eurosite.org/event/6th-na...

📅 From 14–16 July, partners gathered for the first BMD hackathon on Improving FAIRability of research with RO-Crate to develop first prototypes for BMD's SDM infrastructure to support EU nature directives and the restoration and protection of ecosystems across Europe.

📢 The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025 shows that with just 5 years to 2030, progress is too slow.
Millions of lives have improved, but poverty, hunger, climate change, and inequality still remain major challenges.
📘 Read the full report unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/...
@unep.org

🌱 Future research projects are invited to join BioAgora in building the Science Service for Biodiversity (SSBD) – the scientific pillar of the EU’s Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity.
🔎 Help shape the future of biodiversity policy in Europe: bioagora.eu/news/bioagor...

📸Some of the highlights from #BEeS2025, where BMD was also presented 🤩

The European Commission launched a €7M tender to pilot the EU Biodiversity Observation Coordination Centre (EBOCC). 🌍📊 Developed via EuropaBON, EBOCC marks a major step toward coordinated biodiversity monitoring in Europe.
👉 ec.europa.eu/info/funding...

🌍 By 29 July 2024, we had consumed more natural resources than the Earth replenished this year.
💚 That’s where BMD comes in, improving the monitoring and management of the EU’s natural resources.
📖 Learn more: ec.europa.eu/environment/...

Christos Arvanitidis, President of LifeWatch ERIC, was at our stand yesterday. 💚 Be sure to stop by until 3 July, pick up some promotional materials, and meet our partners from @pensoft.net 🦋

Join our workshops this autumn! Explore practical data needs for natural site management & help shape a "Single Access Point" for biodiversity monitoring & analysis.
Нosted by Eurosite.
📍Lithuania (Sept 9–11): www.eurosite.org/event/eurosi...
📍Sweden (Sept 29–Oct 2): www.eurosite.org/event/6th-na...

🌍 BMD’s Niels Raes is at the LifeWatch ERIC BEeS Conference in Heraklion!
📅 Visit our stand until 3 July to pick up promotional materials and meet our partners from @pensoft.net.
🔗 See the full programme: www.lifewatch.eu/bees-2025/pr...

We're at the LifeWatch ERIC Biodiversity & Ecosystem eScience Conference in Heraklion, Greece! 😊📆
👉 This year’s conference explores how eScience and European Research Infrastructures can drive innovation for a sustainable future. 🔎
🔗 www.lifewatch.eu/bees-2025
@lifewatcheric.bsky.social

🔎 Did you know that around 84% of EU crops depend on wild insect pollinators? 🐝
👉 Losing them may trigger species extinctions, loss of ecosystem services, and could eventually lead to ecosystem collapse. 🦋🌍
📖 Learn more: www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/...

📸 Day 1 at the Nature FIRST Conference in Rhenen!
👉 Started with the panel “From Tools to Action – Scaling Conservation Solutions for Global Impact”, featuring our coordinator @nielsraes.bsky.social
💚 Don't forget to stop by the BMD stand!

The Nature FIRST Conference starts today!
😊 This morning, our coordinator @nielsraes.bsky.social joined the panel “From Tools to Action – Scaling Conservation Solutions for Global Impact”
✔ Don't forget to stop by the BMD stand!
🗓️ Full programme: www.naturefirst.info/nfconf-progr...

📢 Nature FIRST Conference begins tomorrow!

🌿Visit the BMD stand and join @nielsraes.bsky.social on 25 Wed at 10:15 as he discusses how research tools can help drive conservation action.

See the full program: www.naturefirst.info/nfconf-progr...

#NatureFIRST #BMDproject #NFConf2025

📅 The Nature FIRST Conference is coming up on 25–26 June 2025 in Rhenen, Netherlands.
💚 BMD will be there with an interactive booth! Come explore our work in high-throughput biodiversity monitoring! 🔎
👉 www.naturefirst.info/events/natur...

From sampling to solutions, eDNA Expeditions are accelerating impact in marine ecosystems, helping track species migrations driven by climate change, detect invasive species before they spread, and monitor biodiversity shifts in near real time. 🌊

🔎 More than 3.4 million insect occurrence records based on DNA metabarcoding of bulk samples from across Sweden and Madagascar have been mobilised to GBIF through a series of datasets. 💚

📄 A recent paper shows how EMODnet Biology turns complex marine biodiversity data into actionable knowledge for policy.
🔎 Read the paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Earth in 100 Seconds 🌍

What are we (mis)using Earth for?

Would love to hear your thoughts on my new short film. Each second = 1% of global land use. What would you change if you had the power?

Please comment and share widely.

Watch on YouTube youtu.be/MshXmxjEQnc

#EarthIn100Seconds

🔁 In case you missed it… Our first YouTube video is out! 🎥 BMD coordinator, Niels Raes shares how BMD is supporting biodiversity monitoring across Europe. 🌍🌿
📺 Watch and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Kc...

🌱Join Eurosite in exploring this vital question at its annual conference, this year in Lithuania, under the slogan: ‘Restoring Nature, Reviving Communities: A United Vision for European Biodiversity’ 🐦🌸
🗓️ 9-11 September 2025
📍 Vilnius, Lithuania
🔗 Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/eurosite-a...

a collage of fruit bats and other vector species on a green background

🦇 A new guide on publishing data about disease vectors, hosts and pathogens is now open for community review!

The guide aims to reduce barriers to sharing and accessing vector data globally. 🌏

⭐ Community review is open until 30 June 2025.

gbif.link/vectors-guide

#WorldEnvironmentDay is a call to protect our planet.🌍
👉11 million tonnes of plastic enter our waters each year, harming 800+ marine species.😲
💚BMD supports smarter conservation with a Single Access Point for AI tools and harmonised #biodiversity data.
🔗 un.org/en/observanc...
#BeatPlasticPollution

Registrations for the 6th Natura 2000 Monitoring Workshop are open 👉 lnkd.in/d5EasAiw
The event will focus on decision-making in nature conservation with case studies on habitats, species, and technology.
📅 29 September – 2 October 2025
📍 SLU Umeå, Faculty of Forest Sciences

YouTube video by Biodiversity Meets Data How does BMD support biodiversity monitoring across Europe?

🎥 Our first YouTube video is live!
How does BMD support #biodiversity monitoring across Europe? 🌍 BMD coordinator Niels Raes outlines the key challenges facing biodiversity monitoring today and how we're addressing them.
🔗 Watch and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Kc...