GBIF.ES - News Archive

December the 14th, 2009
		CANCELLED. An informatve session about last edition of TDWG will take place at the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid-CSIC in December the 15th at 1 p.m. It will be held by Silvia Lusa, staff member of the Spanish GBIF Node, who will explain some of the new technologies learned in Montpellier. This conference will be opened for everybody. More information... Permalink

December the 10th, 2009
		The Biodiversity Conservation in México (CONABIO) has published the book *"Capital Natural de México"* that compiles and analyzes the most acurate knowledge about Mexican megabiodiversity. About ninety foreign professionals and more than six hundred authors from more than two hundred Mexican institutions have collaborated during the development of this work. A summary of the book can be visited online. More information... Permalink

December the 9th, 2009
		The UN climate change conference hold in Copenhagen opened in December the 7th and will last till 18th. GBIF puts forward an opening statement on “global sharing of biodiversity data vital to adaptation and mitigation efforts” highlighting how vital is to share biodiversity data in order to mitigate climate change consequences. More information... Permalink

November the 27th, 2009
		A "Search in GBIF" Google gadget has been developed for GBIF by José García from Málaga University Herbarium. This object can be placed on any page on webs and blogs by adding this script that offers an easy access to the GBIF data portal. You can see an example on the Málaga Herbarium webpage. You can also add the gadget to your personal iGoogle by visiting the google gadget directory: http://www.google.es/ig/directory?hl=es&root=/ig&igtab=p%c3%a1gina+principal&dpos=top, searching for GBIF and click on add gadget. More information... Permalink

November 26th, 2009
		A first "Meeting on biodiversity information and environmental administrations" was organised by the Government of Valencia and the Coordination Unit of GBIF Spain and took place in November the 10th-11th in Valencia. The main goal was to get together environmental professionals from public environmental administrations to look for common solutions to reduce duplication, and to discuss how to best share and integrate biodiversity data from public administrations -- as well as from research centres-- in an effective way. Twenty-six environmental professionals from ten different Spanish Regional Governments and Ministry of Environment, and Rural and Marine affairs attended the meeting. More information in Spanish... Permalink

November the 12th, 2009
		The 3rd edition of the Workshop on Endangered Plan Conservation will take place in November the 23-24 in "Centro de Investigación Agraria Finca La Orden (Badajoz)". Some of the goals of this worksop are: be concern about the problem of plant conservation under Mediterranean conditions, study the proper metodology for endangered plant conservation, build practical conservation projects of edangered plant species, etc More information... Permalink

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