|
|
 |
Ongoing
Projects and Initiatives |
|
|
 |
|
1.
The Inter-American
Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN) |
|
IABIN
is a consolidated internet-based forum for technical and scientific
cooperation, which improves the accessibility, completeness and
interoperability of biodiversity databases, and promote standards for
data exchange and shared vocabularies.
The 34 member countries of the OAS
have a IABIN Focal Points
who serve as a national liaison on all IABIN issues.
Also promotes
databases in the thematic networks of species, specimens,
ecosystems, invasive species, and pollinators. |
|
IABIN progress reports:
August 2002 -
February 2003
February - July 2003
July 2003 - February 2004
February - August 2004
December 2004 - June 2005
July - December 2005
January - June 2006
July - December 2006
January - June 2007
January - June 2008
July - December 2008
January - June 2009
(Spanish version)
July - December 2009
January - June 2010
(Spanish
version)
July - December 2010
(Spanish
version)
IABIN Mind
Newsletter Issue 1
May 2010
Contact
Information:
|
Component 1: Interoperability and Access to Data
Enhance the information
system infrastructure to search,
evaluate, and access biological data and information from a distributed
network of cooperating data and information sources from across the
Americas.
More information...
Component 2: Data Content Creation
Provide technical
leadership to
IABIN participating Countries
as they develop
data for access within the IABIN network to improve the availability of
critical biodiversity data and metadata.
More information ...
Component 3: Value-Added Tools
Contribute to improve
connectivity between biological and non-biological data, includes tools
that will allow the user to ask questions from biodiversity and
socio-economic databases in an integrated manner.
More information ...
Component 4:
Sustainability of IABIN
Orient IABIN as a self-sustaining
distributed network which provides open access to high quality, relevant
information on biodiversity in the Americas, providing that information
in a timely manner to users throughout the public and private sector in
the Americas and to other interested parties worldwide.
More information...
Latest IABIN News
|
|
2.
Sustainable Cities |
|
The OAS Sustainable
Cities approach is driven with a set of actions in the fields of
Economic Development, Housing, Pollution Prevention and Environmental
Protection and Sustainable Transport. A plan of action was released as
one of the main outputs of this Ministerial Meeting; it refers to urgent
need to advance toward sustainable development by strengthening social
awareness, with a broad vision that promotes public participation,
integration, hemispheric cooperation, equity, and social justice, with
special emphasis on women, children, and vulnerable groups.
More information ... |
|
 |
|
3. Western
Hemispheric Migratory Species Initiative (WHMSI)
|
|
Wildlife
directors responsible for the management of flora and fauna and other
senior officials have developed the Western Hemisphere Migratory
Species Initiative (WHMSI). WHMSI is hemispheric project
encompassing 35 nations that addresses the 1940 Convention on Nature
Protection and Wildlife Preservation in the Western Hemisphere (Western
Hemisphere Convention, also known as the Washington Convention) which
calls on governments of the Americas “to protect and preserve in their
natural habitat representatives of all species and genera of their
native flora and fauna, including migratory birds, in sufficient numbers
and over areas extensive enough to assure them from becoming extinct
through any agency within man's control.”
More
information... |
|
4. Regional Strategy
for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of High Andean
Wetlands
|
|
This strategy is a guiding framework for regional
cooperation among the countries involved, within a ten year
projection period (2005-2015). Its purpose is the
conservation and sustainable use of wetlands and wetland
complexes in páramos, jalca, puna, and other High Andean
ecosystems that include glaciers, lakes, lagoons, wet
meadows, bofedales, mallines, highland vegas, salt pans and
peatlands, rivers, water streams and other water bodies,
defined as wetlands within the Ramsar Convention
classification, including catchments, located at the Andean
Range and other mountain systems in Latin America.
More information
... |
|
AAPAD  |
|
6.
The Andes Amazon Protected Areas Database (AAPAD) |
|
The Andes Amazon
Protected Areas Database is a project financed by the Gordon and Betty
Moore Foundation (GBMF) and executed by the Department of Sustainable
Development at the Organization of American States (OAS-DSD). The main
goal of this project is to develop an online database with information
about the status of the protected areas in the Andes – Amazon region.
The database is one of many tools to gauge management effectiveness, to
facilitate decision makers, and better target investments in
biodiversity conservation and management.
More information ... |
Previous
|
