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GEO BON @geobon.org · May 22

🚨 Deadline extended! Abstract deadline extended until 25 May 2025 for #LivingData2025! 🚨

🔗 www.livingdata2025.com/sessions.html

🐦 Early bird registrations have also been extended until 1 July 2025.

#DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org #InstitutoHumboldt

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GEO BON @geobon.org · May 15

🚨 5 days left! Submit your abstract to #LivingData2025—70+ sessions, oral talks, posters & ⚡lightning talks!

Deadline: 20 May
🐦 Early bird reg closes 15 June
🔗Submit abstracts: www.livingdata2025.com/sessions.html

#DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org #InstitutoHumboldt

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GEO BON @geobon.org · May 8

Submit your abstract for presentations, lightning talks or posters at #LivingData2025 ⭐

Deadline: 20 May 2025
Submit now: 🔗 livingdata2025.com/sessions.html

Join @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org and #InstitutoHumboldt in Bogota (Oct 21–24)

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Mar 31

Due to high demand, we have exceeded our registration limit, and we are currently exploring options to accommodate more attendees. We’re working on potential solutions to ensure you don’t miss out. Stay tuned for an update soon!

GEO BON @geobon.org · Mar 27

📢 New webinar on Essential Biodiversity Variables in collab with @mostfun.bsky.social & @biodiversaplus.bsky.social

Learn how EBVs bridge raw data & policy, their strengths, coverage across ecosystems & workflows from data collection to modeling

📅 April 9, 2pm CEST
🔗 mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Mar 31

🚨 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN for #LivingData2025, the conference bringing together @tdwg.org, @gbif.org, @obis.org and @geobon.org in Bogotá.

Join us at this event dedicated to advancing data standards, community engagement, and biodiversity monitoring.

Register ➡️ livingdata2025.com/registration...

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Mar 27

NEW ASIA-PACIFIC TIME!

🌏📦Join our BON in a Box workshop:

Learn how to integrate your biodiversity metric workflows into BON in a Box & share them with the global scientific community!

📅 Tue, April 1st, 2025
⏰ 8 PM – 9:30 PM (GMT-4)

🔗Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/408662...

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Mar 27

📢 New webinar on Essential Biodiversity Variables in collab with @mostfun.bsky.social & @biodiversaplus.bsky.social

Learn how EBVs bridge raw data & policy, their strengths, coverage across ecosystems & workflows from data collection to modeling

📅 April 9, 2pm CEST
🔗 mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Mar 10

Join our BON in a Box workshop! 🌍📦

Learn how to integrate your biodiversity metric workflows into BON in a Box & share them with the global scientific community!

📅 March 12, 2025
⏰ 9 AM–12 PM (GMT-4)
🔗 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7e5e3d...

#BONinaBox #BiaB #BiodiversityData

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Feb 28

As a global network, GEO BON is dedicated to supporting the global community in advancing biodiversity monitoring efforts and ensuring that data drives action in the protection of our planet’s biodiversity 🌏🐅🦜🪱🧬

Become a GEO BON member 👉 members.geobon.org/register/index

GEO BON Members

members.geobon.org

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Feb 28

We’re also excited to bring together the global community at the #LivingData2025 Conference in Bogotá! Let’s discuss data standardization, the challenges in biodiversity reporting, & how we can collaborate across networks to make a global impact 📊 🌍

🔗 www.livingdata2025.com

Living Data 2025 - Information that together, transforms

Join us in Bogotá for Living Data 2025, exploring biodiversity data standards, integration, and community engagement.

www.livingdata2025.com

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Feb 28

At GEO BON, we’re committed to supporting countries in meeting their biodiversity monitoring needs. With tools like #BONinABox, we’re helping nations calculate and report on biodiversity indicators of the #KMGBF - with accessible, consistent, & impactful data 🌏📦

🔗 boninabox.geobon.org

BON in a Box

boninabox.geobon.org

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Feb 28

🌍 The resumed 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity #COP16Resumed has concluded with a historic agreement to enhance global biodiversity monitoring.

Muchas gracias Colombia for your leadership in this crucial meeting! 🇨🇴 #KMGBF #Biodiversity

Governments agree on the way forward to mobilise the resources needed to protect biodiversity for people and planet

Governments agreed, on 27 February 2025, in Rome on the strategy to raise the funds needed to protect biodiversity and achieve the action targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework ...

www.cbd.int

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Feb 28

🔄 How do we turn raw biodiversity data into actionable insights for policy and conservation?

Jory Griffith shows how Bon in a Box #BiaB can be used to support the calculation of biodiversity indicators📊

Watch her speak at the @wildlabs.bsky.social series:
youtu.be/YXp9xlDvY8I?...

Jory Griffith: GEO BON

YouTube video by WILDLABS.NET

youtu.be

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Feb 28

GEO BON welcomes @achughes.bsky.social & Haigen Xu as new co-chairs! 🎉

They join María-Cecilia Londoño & @bio-diverse.bsky.social in strengthening biodiversity monitoring, improving data accessibility, and fostering global collaboration.

Join us in welcoming them! 👏

🔗 geobon.org/welcome-new-...

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Feb 14

🚀 New tutorial! Learn how to create a pipeline in #BONinaBox, GEO BON's open tool for biodiversity monitoring & indicator calculation!

🎥Watch here 👉 youtu.be/LwncUuc4WeM?...

📢 Join our free March–April workshop to build & contribute analysis pipelines! 👉 boninabox.geobon.org/events

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · Feb 8

I'm off to Rome today for #BIOSPACE2025

I can't wait to attend the first international conference exclusively dedicated to the application of Satellite Remote Sensing to #biodiversity science & monitoring.

A partnership bn @esa.int @geobon.org CEOS

Watch online here
👉 biospace25.esa.int

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Anne Larigauderie @annelarigauderie.bsky.social · Feb 12

BIOSPACE25 made much needed progress to enhance the use of Earth Observations in biodiversity research and monitoring.
Thanks to @esa.int @geobon.org @ec.europa.eu and CEOS for the invitation!

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Guillaume Larocque @glaroc.bsky.social · Feb 12

Spending a very stimulating week at @esa.int in Frascati, Italy for the #biospace25 conference, focused on observing biodiversity from space. I'm here thanks to @biodiversite-quebec.ca to learn about EO solutions for biodiversity, and working with @geobon.org colleagues to showcase BON in a Box.

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Geoff Smith @drgeoffsmith.bsky.social · Feb 14

As #BIOSPACE25 wraps up, I'd like to give a big thank you to the organisers, those in my workshop, and everyone else who attended. I'm looking forward to the next one.
@esa.int @esaearth.esa.int @ec.europa.eu @copernicusland.bsky.social @geobon.org #ceos #biodiversity #eochat @cnes.bsky.social

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Feb 6

⏰ Time is running out to submit session and workshop proposals for #LivingData2025!

Join TDWG @gbif.org OBIS & @geobon.org at Instituto Humboldt in Bogotá #Colombia to connect with global biodiversity networks.

Deadline: 📌12 Feb
🔗 www.livingdata2025.com/calls.html
#DatosVivos2025

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Feb 6

🚀 New tutorial! Learn how to write a script in #BONinaBox, GEO BON’s open tool for biodiversity monitoring & indicator calculation! 🌍📊

🎥 Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvYM...

📢 Join our free March–April workshop to build & contribute analysis pipelines! Register: boninabox.geobon.org/events

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Feb 5

🚀 New video tutorial series!

Learn how to install #BONinaBox, GEO BON’s open tool for biodiversity modeling & indicator calculation! 🌍📊

▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3T3...

📢 Join our free workshops in March & April to build & run analysis pipelines!
Register here 👉 boninabox.geobon.org/events

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Feb 5

#LivingData2025 Theme 4 - 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Community Engagement & Capacity Building

This theme explores methods and theories of engaging diverse global scientific, education, Indigenous and local communities.❤️

🔗 www.livingdata2025.com/calls.html

TDWG OBIS @gbif.org Instituto Humboldt

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Feb 5

#LivingData2025 Theme 3 🦋 Biodiversity Data Application

This theme explores practicing and prioritizing data collection and analysis for education, research, conservation, & policy development.

🔗 www.livingdata2025.com/calls.html

Deadline: Feb 12th

TDWG OBIS @gbif.org Instituto Humboldt

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GEO BON @geobon.org · Jan 15

#LivingData2025 Theme 2 - 👩‍💻 Data Integration

This theme explores workflows, tech and #data products that bridge the gaps between raw observation data, scientific research, & needs of policymakers.

Submit here: 🔗 www.livingdata2025.com/calls.html

TDWG OBIS @gbif.org Instituto Humboldt

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