[Nhcoll-l] SPNHC and UN Biodiversity report

Wed May 22 12:17:02 EDT 2019

Dear Barbara,

these UN programmes share common goals, for example IPBES goals are 
mirrored in Aichi Target 19 
<https://www.cbd.int/sp/targets/rationale/target-19/> in the Global 
Biodiversity Outlook 4 <https://www.cbd.int/gbo4/> and in the 
Sustainable Development Goals 
<https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300>.

We (CETAF Legs & Regs group) revised these when drafting our earlier 
submission to the SCB Secreteriat on DSI in 2017, which might be a 
helpful starting point and summary; you can find the document here 
<https://www.cbd.int/abs/DSI-views/CETAF-DSI.pdf>. We referenced or 
contributions to GBIF, BOLD and international Sequence databases, which 
are also mentioned for example in the Biodiversity Outlook 4 (which 
IPBES people should know, but may not be aware of). The very few IPBES 
people I met so far seemed to be a bit self-centred, but it would surely 
be worth contacting them.

Independent of contacting IPBES it would definitely be relevant for us 
to produce a document which references where our (taxonomic) work, 
research results, published data, shared metadata on GBIF, etc. has 
relevance and should be considered, for example in calls on Nagoya/DSI, 
strategies under IPBES, etc., so that we could use this document as 
knowledge base for our responses, and potentially to raise the profile 
of collections and what our community contributes in general to combat 
biodiversity loos (or at least to understand it fast enough before 
species are gone).

All the best
Dirk

Am 22.05.2019 um 17:49 schrieb Thiers, Barbara:
>
> As I am sure you are all aware, the summary of the IPBES Global 
> Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services 
> <https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/> 
> released on 6 May paints a grim future for biodiversity unless 
> transformative change can be achieved.  By transformative change, they 
> mean “a fundamental, system-wide reorganization across technological, 
> economic and social factors, including paradigms, goals and values.”
>
> A SPNHC member asked me recently what role the society could play in 
> the transformative change that is called for by the report summary.  I 
> am writing on this International Day for Biological Diversity 
> <https://www.cbd.int/idb/2019/>  in order to put this question to 
> SPNHC members and anyone in the collections community.
>
> A significant and growing body of research demonstrates how natural 
> history collections (or data derived from them) inform a wide range 
> studies that predict how biodiversity may respond to environmental 
> change. You can find references for such studies in the iDigBio 
> Bibliography <https://www.idigbio.org/biblio> or in the BCON Extended 
> Specimen report bibliography 
> <https://bcon.aibs.org/2019/01/16/community-input-requested-extending-u-s-biodiversity-collections-to-address-national-challenges>.  
> As the Biodiversity Literacy for Undergraduate Education 
> <https://www.biodiversityliteracy.com/> initiative is demonstrating, 
> natural history collections provide an excellent gateway for students 
> to gain an understanding of the importance of biodiversity. 
> Collections of course also engage the general public not just in 
> museum exhibits but also through citizen science projects such as 
> Notes from Nature 
> <https://www.zooniverse.org/organizations/md68135/notes-from-nature>, 
> and many others.
>
> So, what should SPNHC do to make sure that we contribute to the 
> protection of sustainable ecosystems in an appropriate and meaningful 
> way?  Preliminary conversation among the members of SPNHC Council have 
> yielded the following suggestions:
>
> ·Reach out to the IPBES group working on the report to find out 
> whether or not there is the possibility of including the importance of 
> collections in addressing the biodiversity crisis in their report
>
> ·Have an official response to the full report when it is issued this year
>
> ·Conduct a Twitter campaign to highlight collections and their 
> importance in biodiversity research.
>
> ·Build specific objectives relating to emphasizing the importance of 
> collections in biodiversity conservation into our new strategic plan
>
> Do you think these are appropriate actions? Can you think of other 
> actions we could take as an organization to contribute to the 
> discussion in a meaningful way?
>
> I hope you will share your thoughts on this subject, either through 
> this list or in discussions next week at our Conference in Chicago.
>
> Dr. Barbara M. Thiers
>
> Vice President
>
> Patricia K. Holmgren Director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium
>
> Curator of Bryophytes
>
> Editor, /Index Herbariorum/
>
> President, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
>
> New York Botanical Garden
>
> Bronx, NY 10458-5126
>
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>
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>
> Download:
>
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> Index Herbariorum annual report)
>
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