Biodiversity Monitoring Reports

This guide provides a practical, step-by-step framework for designing and implementing biodiversity monitoring within conservation projects.

provide guidelines and tools for practitioners. This document provides a bibliography of key materials of use to anyone setting up and implementing a biodiversity monitoring programme, from conservation project manag.

Our knowledge of biodiversity is still limited. Only one out of five to ten of all species is known to science. And even among the most well-known taxonomic groups - mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and vascular plants - we do not know the population size, distribution or threat status for many.

: Species distribution model workflow. Raw biodiversity datasets (observations and expert ranges), in this example including the data from the Field Museum and Guyana Protected Areas Commissions rapid inventory in Guyana and MOLs global species databases are combined with environmental covariates, then fit to MOL

UNEP supports countries in developing and implementing biodiversity monitoring frameworks. UNEP provides technical assistance, tools, and resources to enhance monitoring capacity and improve data collection methodologies.