Biodiversity protection: global species information system

Biodiversity protection: global species information system

The European Union announced that it would contribute to a global species information system as a follow up to G8þ5 biodiversity talks in Potsdam,Germany in early 2007. The EU contribution, SpeciesBase, will use European funds to collate data from across the continent for the new database. In a related development, the European Commission has launched and is supporting “Net-Biome”a research project to aid biodiversity protection in the tropical overseas territories of EU countries such as France and the UK.