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Inter-American Workshop on Access to Environmental Data, 3-6 March 2004, Campinas, Brazil

Towards Biodiversity Information Systems for decision-making in conservation and sustainable use in Costa Rica. Inter-American Workshop on Access to Environmental Data, 3-6 March 2004, Campinas, Brazil William Ulate R. INBio. Contents. Costa Rica today What is INBio? Mission

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Inter-American Workshop on Access to Environmental Data, 3-6 March 2004, Campinas, Brazil

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  1. Towards Biodiversity Information Systems for decision-making in conservation and sustainable use in Costa Rica Inter-American Workshop on Access to Environmental Data, 3-6 March 2004, Campinas, Brazil William Ulate R. INBio

  2. Contents • Costa Rica today • What is INBio? • Mission • Biodiversity Information • SINAC: National Conservation Areas System • INBio´s Core Process • Administrative Structure • Species, Specimens and Ecosystems • Biodiversity Information Systems • The Atta Biodiversity Information System • Decision-making in conservation and sustainable use

  3. Costa Rica Today Evolution of key indicators from the 2000 UNDP Human Development Report

  4. Costa Rica Today National Income for some of the Main Products

  5. What is INBio? National Biodiversity Institute of Costa Rica • Non-governmental non-profit organization • Declared of public interest • Created in 1989 • Strategic alliance with SINAC • www.inbio.ac.cr

  6. Know Use Save Mission “To promote a greater level of awareness of the value of biodiversity, as means to ensure its conservation and improve the quality of life of human beings.”

  7. Biodiversity Information We need: • scientifically validated, • relevant, • representative, • up-to-date, • multiple scales, • accesible information.

  8. SINAC National Conservation Areas System • Collections from Protected Areas • Partnership alliance • Information needs • Capacity building • Parataxonomists

  9. THEMATIC AREAS Biodiversity Informatics Inventory and Monitoring GIS Bioprospecting Conservation for Development STRATEGIC ACTION UNITS Informatics Developments Arthropods Plants Fungi Mollusks Vertebrates SIGBio Bioprospecting <Cross-cutting issue for all Units> Administrative Structure18 Strategic Action Units and 5 Thematic Areas

  10. Species, Specimens & Ecosystems

  11. Biodiversity Information Systems • BIMS • Development: 1993 – 1995 • Production: 1995 – 2000 • Atta • Development: 1997 – 2000 • Production: 2000 - today

  12. Biodiversity Information Systems • BIMS • Intergraph • All collections into one database • Key points: • Multiple levels for identification: kingdom to variety • Identifications logging • One register for each specimen

  13. Biodiversity Information Systems Atta • Conceived to support INBio’s core process • Designed to reinforce the idea of an institutional system • Aimed to last longer than BIMS • Designed to be more scalable and more adaptable to new technologies • Attend other users needs (not only scientists)

  14. Biodiversity Information Systems Atta

  15. Atta • Scalability • Common names • Flexible querying • Embedded GIS tools • Multiple security levels • Object-oriented design • Export info in standard formats • Multiple collections administration • Access to multimedia information via Internet • Eco-geographic, species, specimen level info. • Identification and taxonomical hierarchy history

  16. Time-frame: Geographical-frame: Taxonomical levels: Geographic layers: Collections: 5 Database size: Concurrent users: Avg. daily page hits: 1989-2003 Costa Rica 22 (extendible) 15 (extendible) 5 (extendible) 9.5 Gb + 3.5 Gb Up to 40 (internally) 12000 Atta

  17. Species UBI’s: Collected specimens: Identified specimens: Identified species: Daily new species (avg): Ecosystems Inventory: 2,314 (+1,686 unpublished) 2,900,000 900,000 19,758 0.71 44% of the country Atta

  18. Total external queries: Total Countries: 1. U.S.A.(3443)11. Venezuela (50) 2. C.R. (2864)12. Japan (49) 3. Spain (294)13. Belgium (46) 4. Mexico (289) 14. Argentina (39) 5. Colombia(100)15. Netherlands(37) 6. Canada (92)16. U. K. (34) 7. Germany (85) 17. El Salvador (28) 8. Guatemala(80)18. Sweden (21) 9. Brazil (62)19. Austria (16) 10. Peru (62)20. Chile (15) 7.9 thousand 40 countries Australia (14) 31. Italy (7) Ecuador (13) 32. Norway (7) Nicaragua (12) 33. Panama (5) Russia (12) 34. Portugal (5) France (11) 35. Israel (4) Puerto Rico (11) 36. Bolivia (3) <Unknown> (10) 37. Cuba (2) Korea (8) 38. S. Africa (2) Switzerland (8) 39. Malasia (1) Honduras (7) 40. Ucrania (1) Atta Effective queries to Atta’s dynamic Web-reportsduring the first 16 months of operationbetween May 2001 and Oct. 2002

  19. Atta Effective queries to Atta’s dynamic Web-reportsduring the first 16 months of operationbetween May 2001 and Oct. 2002 Most wanted: • Plants • Insects • Mollusks

  20. Very different types of Institutions (367): Academic Museums Conservation institution International Cooperation Agricultural Research Pharmaceutical Internet Service Providers Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin Universite Catholique de Louvain Australian Museum The Nature Conservancy Commission of the European Communities U.S. Department of Agriculture Agriculture and Agrifood Canada Numico Research (The Netherlands) Tokyo Telecommunication Network Co., Inc Jaring (Malasya) Andinatel S.A. (Ecuador) Atta (Querying statistics from May 2001 to Oct. 2002)

  21. Decision-making & sustainable use Last year, after a process of analyzing the impact of the institutional information in conservation and sustainable development, two important documents came out: • Sustainability Strategy • Institutional Essence Based on these, and according to the mission and vision statements, we were able to define the “Institutional Strategy for 2004-2006” and the “2004Operative Annual Plan” to coordinate all 18 Units’ goals and activities.

  22. Decision-making & sustainable use • Sustainability Strategy • INBio recognized as an excellence center in its biodiversity and conservation related activities • INBio as a flexible and efficient organization • INBio integrated into effective international, regional and local networks • INBio counts with stable financial sources (66/33)

  23. Decision-making & sustainable use • Institutional Essence It considers: What are we, What do we do, Where do we come from, Where do we want to go to determine: • Target audiences • Types of information • Partners

  24. Decision-making & sustainable use a) Prioritized target audiences • Politicians • Biodiversity Managers • Resource users • Communication media and opinion-formers • Educators and religious leaders • Conservation NGO’s

  25. Decision-making & sustainable use b) Types of information • Composition, structure and function of: • Species: • Taxonomy, abundance, density, geographical distribution, distribution by sex and age, habitat requirements and, in general, natural history information. • Genes: • Diversity among species and populations, as well as processes that allow genetic exchange • Ecosystems and landscapes: • Distribution, extension, fragmentation, impact, species conforming them and ecological functions.

  26. Decision-making & sustainable use b) Types of information (cont.) • Conservation status: • Representative • Efficiency of Wild Protected Areas • Status of Ecological Processes • Monitoring • Threats • Values and uses • Management models

  27. Decision-making & sustainable use c) Partners - collaborators • Scientific and business communities • Public authorities • Donors • Other Institutions and Organizations

  28. Thank you

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