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- What is your name?
- Tim Hirsch
- What is your job title?
- Senior Programme Officer for Engagement
- What organisation do you work for?
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- What aspects of biodiversity are you most interested in?
- Access and benefit sharing, Agriculture, Biodiversity targets, CBD negotiations, Communicating biodiversity, Ecosystem services, Forests, Protected areas
- What languages do you speak?
- English, Portuguese
- Please use this section to introduce yourself in more detail, adding any other relevant information not included in your previous answers. The site administrator will use this answer to decide whether to approve your membership
- From the end of May 2011 I will be heading communications and outreach at GBIF, as well as developing and maintaining strategic partnerships with scientific bodies, MEA secretariats etc and helping to expand GBIF's participation among countries and international institutions.
Tim Hirsch's Blog
Brazil joins global initiative for biodiversity data access
Copenhagen / Brasília – Brazil has become the latest country to join the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), dedicated to promoting free and open access to biodiversity data.
The formal step of becoming a GBIF Participant was the signature of the GBIF Memorandum of Understanding by the Brazilian Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Marco Antonio Raupp.
The MoU commits a…
ContinuePosted on October 31, 2012 at 7:30
Biodiversity data network helps map plants used in Aboriginal medicine
Innovative use of data accessible through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) may help to identify areas of high cultural value, based on plants used in traditional medicine by Aboriginal people in Australia.
The Customary Medicinal Knowledgebase (CMKb), based at Macquarie University, is teaming up with the…
ContinuePosted on August 28, 2011 at 16:14
It's not just the climate, stupid
Ask the average, well-informed punter to name the most significant current environmental threat to human societies, and she or he is very likely to answer climate change. Indeed, it is common for people to use climate change and the environment interchangeably.
As long ago as 2005, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) concluded that climate change was just one of five principal drivers behind threats to the benefits we derive from…
ContinuePosted on February 10, 2011 at 13:10
Decoding the DNA soup of the forest
From tomorrow (Saturday 11th Dec) until Wednesday I will be attending a scientific conference in the town of Bragança Paulista, organised by FAPESP, the public body that funds scientific research in the state of São Paulo - which contributes about half of all the published scientific papers in Brazil. The theme is "Getting post-2010 Biodiversity Targets…
ContinuePosted on December 10, 2010 at 21:49
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