Wednesday, July 8, 2026

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Room BM.1.26

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In this symposium, European nature conservation agencies present their work with a focus on reporting and monitoring in order to reach out to the research community and to give a clearer picture about policy relevance of research questions and methodological approaches. Nature Conservation Agencies are the biodiversity science policy interface in many European countries and often responsible for the compilation of key assessments on status and trends of biodiversity at national level. Such assessments include national reporting obligations and reporting for EU Directives and Regulations or for the UN Convention on Biological Biodiversity (CBD). In most cases indicators are specified that deal with all levels of biodiversity (genetic, species, habitats) and often include beside status parameters also such dealing with biodiversity pressures and conservation activities. Data for such indicators often need to be obtained by field surveys ind the frame of biodiversity monitoring programmes. Challenges arise with an increase of quantity and quality of reporting obligations and with emerging technologies that are still to be established as standardized monitoring tools (e.g. metabarcoding, eDNA, means of automatization such as camera traps or voice recorders, remote sensing, citizen science). Synergies across reporting obligations and with biodiversity research are yet vaguely defined and should be fostered. This goes hand in hand with the establishment of national biodiversity monitoring hubs and the planned establishment of a European Biodiversity Observation Coordination Center EBOCC. Many European Conservation Agencies collaborate under the frame of their network ENCA, with currently 21 member agencies.

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Speakers and Presentation Titles

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