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Abdullahi Hassan questioned
Could you please elaborate more about the national biodiversity challenges as we face many challenges not only data availability but also access so what are the key technologies that make easier data and how can be downscaled the global data to national ?

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Mike Gill responded
You raise some fundamental challenges here and ones not easily overcome. However, we are becoming better at modelling techniques that can interpolate or infer status and trends between sampling locations but also we can use these models to tell us where, in a priority fashion, we should put efforts to fill gaps. REmote sensing also plays a key role here but not to the point that we can no longer do ground observations – ground observations are essential.

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Anonymous Attendee questioned
Currently monitoring efforts are often sporadic and quite expensive, aerial surveys for example might only occur once in a decade. Also, wildlife management units are often geographically defined by anthropogenic features on the landscape such as highways as opposed to biologically relevant boundaries based on viable habitat for species. Indigenous peoples through their stewardship conduct constant landscape level monitoring and their traditional knowledge offers access to data sets thousands of years long. What can we do to help braid these sources of information to enhance monitoring?

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Andrew Gonzalez responded
For indicators such as connectivity and ecosystem integrity: we have a small set of common indicators, based on EBVs and landcover, that can be used at regional and global scales. This is key to achieve so we can aggregate and disaggregate our understanding of biodiversity change.

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Mike Gill responded
To add to Henrique’s answer – I also think we can structure harmonized indicators that allow for different levels of regional capacity – so more or less the same indicator but using flexible flows of different data from different nations/regions.

And this is where the Essential BIodiversity Variables come in as they allow data independent of methods to be integrated to say something about biodiveristy change. These can act as the connective tissue between regions and other geographies to some extent.

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Nakul Chettri questioned
There seems to be differences in term of capacity, priority and infrastructure at regional scales. So, one global indicator may be a limiting factor to reflect regional indicators. Is it possible look for region based indicators?

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Juan Rocha questioned
Thanks Lina for your talk!! Do you know if the Humboldt institute make data openly available for research purposes? Visualization services are great for communicating to the general public, but is it an API or similar service to access and combine biodiversity datasets with other sources?

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Janny Sumilla questioned
What are the advantages and disadvantages of Citizen-Science approach of collecting data? To Ms. Lina

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Olayiwola Agoro questioned
Thank you Lina, in the course of your data collection, what has been the influence of political decisions, or don’t you experience that?

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Natasha Ali questioned
Mike – perhaps I missed it: do countries say why they use national vs global indicators?

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Josue ARUNA questioned
Is it possible to share with your team some date collected by us on behalth of Congo Basin Conservation Society. Cbcs NGO. ? For publication ? Like Hippopotamus data

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Thank you for the answer Martine – indeed I am particularly curious about the normative uptake of recent products such as the IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology. Considering that a specific definition of integrity might not be included in the post-2020 GBF, the subsequent work of the COP/SBSTTA will be crucial to provide some level of consistency at the country level.

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Hi Keita Hamada, thank you very much for raising this important question. In the paper we do discuss the role of sustainability standards and discuss how these can be made more effective – Certified sustainable palm oil (through the RSPO or other standards) could contribute to sustainable food systems if the biodiversity requirements are strengthened, in combination with greater corporate accountability, more transparency in land transactions, and appreciating diverse, multifunctional agricultural landscapes that support local resilience. This may mean a redistribution of how profits from the sector (and more broadly) are currently shared at the moment.

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Martine Maron responded
Thank you Dario – appreciate your comment. I agree that measuring impact/contribution is such a challenge, and yet impact is all that matters in terms of action targets. I think there are some excellent developments in defining ecosystems and ecosystem inttegrity eg through the Red List of ecosystems group – i think there is a strong science basis developing.

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Thanks Li Li, agreed this component of the triangle is definitely the most challenging to assess. We’re working with a diverse group of stakeholders to see how we can derive appropriate metrics and indicators to capture what we mean by nature as culture without losing the intangible aspects. I think being able to use narratives to ensure that the full complexity of perspectives is captured and then moving to quantification and modelling is an important step. In terms of GBF I think the key message is to ensure that we acknowelge the diversity of value perspectives that people have for nature- not just instrumental- so as to be able to ensure that these desires are captured in the implementation- and that we’re able as best we can to capture a full range of perspectives, especially those of more marginalised groups.

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