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The International Barcode of Life Consortium (iBOL) is facilitating capacity-building on DNA barcoding for rapid species identification
iBOL is the leading organization developing DNA-based tools for biodiversity monitoring and conservation. Through capacity development and technology transfer, iBOL is helping CBD Parties enhance their capacity to identify and monitor biodiversity.
View their step-by-step instructional videos on DNA sequence barcoding and meta-barcoding, generated in collaboration with the CBD and with generous support from the Government of Japan, below.
DNA barcoding Credit: International Barcode of Life Consortium | DNA meta-barcoding Credit: International Barcode of Life Consortium |
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Click here for more details and information on iBOL’s activities with the CBD.
Joint call for action on recognizing the critical role of taxonomy to underpin transformative change within the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
The Global Taxonomy Initiative Forum (GTI Forum) 2020
Online, 2 to 4 December 2020
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The Global Taxonomy Initiative Forum (GTI Forum)
Sharm El Sheikh International Congress Center, Egypt 16 November 2018
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The CETAF Code of Conduct and Best Practice for Access and Benefit-Sharing
The GTI E-Book
The Secretariat is pleased to announce the publication of the GTI e-book "Introduction to Access and Benefit-Sharing and the Nagoya Protocol: What DNA Barcoding Researchers Need to Know" authored by Kate Davis and Alex Borisenko in Advanced Books (07 Dec 2017) https://doi.org/10.3897/ab.e22579
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The Global Taxonomy Initiative Training Courses in Developing Countries to be held in 2018
As informed to Parties and observers in notification 2017-021, the eleven training courses of the standard GTI-DNA-tech take place in 2018 as shown in the table below.
Effective conservation and management of biodiversity depends in large part on our understanding of taxonomy. Unfortunately, inadequate taxonomic information and infrastructure, coupled with declining taxonomic expertise, hinders our ability to make informed decisions about conservation, sustainable use and sharing of the benefits derived from genetic resources. Governments, through the Convention on Biological Diversity, have acknowledged the existence of a "taxonomic impediment" to the sound management of biodiversity, and have developed the Global Taxonomic Initiative to remove or reduce the impediment. More »