http://ipt.gbifbenin.org/resource?r=waterbird Census of waterbird in Benin Flyway Nassirou BRISSO Direction Générale des Eaux, Forêts et Chasse (DGEFC) Point focal Adjoint AEWA
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Nassirou BRISSO Direction Générale des Eaux, Forêts et Chasse (DGEFC) Point focal Adjoint AEWA
01 BP 4015 Cotonou Littorale 229 BJ
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Sunday Berlioz KAKPO Laboratoire des Sciences Forestières Deputy Chief of Department Biodiversity Informatic and Climate Change+
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Kourouma KOURA Laboratoire des Sciences Forestières/Université d’Abomey-Calavi (LSF/UAC) Service Etude et Caractérisation des Produits Forestiers Autres que le Bois
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Jean Cossi GANGLO Laboratory of forest sciences Head
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2019-04-30 eng "Those data are part of work to collect data about the status of coastal migratory flyway populations of the East Atlantic Flyway (van Roomen et al. 2013) and of partial migratory or resident waterbird populations using the same sites at this flyway. It is organized by the Wadden Sea Flyway Initiative, Wetlands International and BirdLife International in cooperation with national authorities, organisations and institutions responsible for waterbird and wetland monitoring. Besides national investments of the monitoring partners, it was funded by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs through Programme Rich Wadden Sea, the organisation MAVA through BirdLife International and Wetlands International, The World Wide Fund for Nature in The Netherlands, The National Park Wadden Sea Schleswig-Holstein through the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat, The National Park Wadden Sea Niedersachsen, Vogelbescherming The Netherlands and the WeBS partnership from the UK." Occurrence waterbird wetland Benin GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml Observation GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. South Benin 1.812 2.53 6.577 6.286 2017-01-23 2017-01-27 Plantea kingdom Plantea unkown Nassirou BRISSO Direction Générale des Eaux, Forêts et Chasse (DGEFC) Point focal Adjoint AEWA
01 BP 4015 Cotonou Littorale 229 BJ
96 57 66 23 b_nassirou@yahoo.fr
Regional graduate course for capacity development in biodiversity informatics in Africa Jean Cossi GANGLO pointOfContact Through key objectives, this project is designed to overcome the challenge of lack of capacities in Africa: Objective 1: Build in-depth capacities in biodiversity informatics to students in masters program: At least 20 Beninese students and 10 students of other nationalities will be yearly recruited and fully capacitated in the program (Months 4, 16, 28 and beyond the project) (Output 1). The courses will be recorded and shared worldwide (Outcome 4). Objective 2: Build capacities in biodiversity informatics to other GBIF Benin partners (students and professionals): Through workshops, at least, each year, 50 other GBIF Benin partners will be trained in relevant topics of biodiversity informatics (Months 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 34 and beyond) (Output 5) Objective 3: Fill data gaps in priority thematic areas of Benin and other countries involved in the project: Trained students will achieve data gaps analysis in priority thematic areas (Months 12 – 36 and beyond) (Output 6) and contribute to fill data gaps (Months 12 – 36 and beyond) (Output 7). Objective 4: Use data to develop appropriate products to inform decisions on biodiversity conservation: Trained students will use data to address needs of information (Months 12 – 36 and beyond) (Output 8) and largely disseminate the results via multimedia (Months 12 – 36 and beyond) (Output 9). Project Objective 5: Enhance staff development: We will provide internship opportunities to strengthen capacities of national trainers and most brilliant students to enable them to sustainably carry on the training of students in the program The funding of this project is generously provided by JRS Biodiversity Foundation (http://jrsbiodiversity.org/) Actually in Benin, we estimate that there are 400 – 600 working biodiversity information scientists in public and private agencies. With few exceptions, the situation is not much different in the rest of African countries. Those biodiversity information scientists usually base their decisions - of biodiversity conservation - on floristic and faunistic compositions of ecosystems and related communities as well as on ecology, ethology and habitat characteristics of different species. This approach becomes limiting to conserve efficiently and sustainably biodiversity in the actual threatening context of climate and global changes exacerbated by diverse pressures on biodiversity. To overcome that limitation, we rather need a critical mass of scientists with sound knowledge in biodiversity informatics to achieve relevant results on spatial distributions, ecological niches… of species and different biota to inform decisions on priority areas of biodiversity. In order to develop a trained cohort to meet national needs, we believe that Benin needs to train at least an additional 20 master students. Additionally, training each year at least 10 other masters and advanced students from different African countries, will result in progressive but efficient creation of homes of biodiversity informatics to enhance biodiversity conservation and sustainable uses throughout Africa. The work plan of the project is presented per objective: Objective 1: Build in-depth capacities in biodiversity informatics to students in masters program We will recruit students every year (Activity 1) at least 20 Beninese students and 10 students of other nationalities (Months 4, 16, 28 and beyond) (Output 1).Students will be fully trained in relevant topics of biodiversity informatics by national and international experts (Months 1-36 and beyond) (Activity 2) so that, after two years of training, at least 80% of students successfully graduate (Months 18, 30 and beyond) (Output 2). The courses will be recorded and shared (Months 1-36) (Activity 3) to enable worldwide use and reuse (Outcome 3). Objective 2: Build capacities in biodiversity informatics to other GBIF Benin partners (students and professionals) Here, we will enhance, through one Professional Skills Workshop per year, capacity buildings to other GBIF Benin partners (Months 6, 18, 30and beyond) (Activity 4) by training yearly, at least 50 of them in relevant topics of biodiversity informatics (Output 4). Therefore, data gap analysis, data collection, and data uses will be promoted (Outcome 4). Objective 3: Whenever deemed relevant, identify and fill data gaps in priority thematic areas of Benin and other countries involved in the project Whenever relevant, trained students will achieve data gaps analysis (Months 12 – 36 and beyond) (Activity 5) in at least 3 priority thematic areas of their respective countries (Months 12 – 36 and beyond) (Output 5); they will then collect and publish data (Months 12 – 36 and beyond) (Activity 6) to fill the gaps identified (Months 12 – 36 and beyond) (Output 5). Therefore, data gap analysis, data collection, and data uses will be promoted (Outcome 4). Objective 4: Use data to develop appropriate products to inform decisions on biodiversity conservation To attain that objective, trained students will use data (Months 12 – 36 and beyond) (Activity 7) to address needs of information (species, biota spatial distributions and niche models…) to support biodiversity conservation (Months 12 – 36 and beyond) (Output 7). We will then, through Communication and Outreach Workshops (1 per year), achieve communication and outreach (Months 12 – 36 and beyond) (Activity 8) to largely disseminate the products developed, in government agencies, NGOs, universities, private sectors… (Months 12 – 36 and beyond) (Output 8). Therefore, detailed and data products developed will be promoted in decision making (Outcome 5). Objective 5: Enhance staff development Here, we will provide internship opportunities to national trainers and most brilliant students to strengthen their capacities so that they can reliably carry on the training of students (Months 1 – 36 and beyond) (Activity 9) to sustain in the program (Outcome 7)
2019-04-30T09:57:42.472+00:00 dataset Toussaint LOUGBEGNON, Abdou Salami AMADOU, Nassirou BRISSO, Hugues AKPONA, Etienne DOSSOU, Sylvestre CHAFFRA, Roméo ADJERAN, KAKPO S. B., KOURA K., GANGLO J. C., 2019. Occurrence data from waterbird and wetland monitoring in Benin Flyway. Benin "Agblonon G., Nsabagasani C., Langendoen T., & van Roomen M. (eds.) 2017. National Census Reports East Atlantic Africa 2017. Results of waterbird and wetland monitoring in the East Atlantic Flyway. Common Wadden Sea Secretariat, Programme Rich Wadden Sea, Wetlands International & BirdLife International."