Action plan for information on invasive alien species

Concerned URL	http://www.gbif.org/communications/news-and-events/showsingle/article/action-plan-for-information-on-invasive-alien-species/
Source	GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Release date	22/11/2011
Contributor	Lotte Endsleff

Implementation ‘roadmap’ commits key partners to harmonize data needed to tackle threat to biodiversity from invasives.

Government experts meeting under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have endorsed a wide-ranging programme to strengthen information available to decision-makers on the spread of invasive alien species (IAS).

The plan, presented to the CBD’s Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) in Montreal, arose from a workshop held at the GBIF Secretariat in Copenhagen in September, where experts agreed on an unprecedented level of collaboration on the means to share global IAS data.

The Joint Work Programme (JWP, see document UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/15/INF/14, available at http://www.cbd.int/doc/?meeting=sbstta-15) unites eight information service providers behind nearly 50 action points aimed at combining and harmonizing data on IAS from a wide range of different databases and networks.