What is it about?
Even in the 21st century we need people on the ground in key sites, such as protected areas, to count animals and plants and assess the threats facing them. Only with solid field data to complement images from space can governments, NGOs and local people make the right conservation management decisions.
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Why is it important?
This is a timely effort to highlight the priorities for species monitoring as the world strives to monitor delivery of the Aichi Targets and the Sustainable Development Goals.
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This page is a summary of: Priorities for big biodiversity data, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, April 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/fee.1473.
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