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ICIMOD’s Biodiversity Information and Gaps in Information Availability and Sharing in HKH Region. Suman Jaiswal Knowledge Management and Database Assistant Email: [email protected] 5th AP-BON Meeting, 25-28 Nov. 2013 Los Banos , Laguna, Philippines. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Kathmandu, Nepal
ICIMOD’s Biodiversity Information and Gaps in Information Availability and Sharing in HKH Region
Suman JaiswalKnowledge Management and Database AssistantEmail: [email protected]
5th AP-BON Meeting, 25-28 Nov. 2013Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines
About ICIMODInternational Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Afghanistan
Bhutan
Pakistan
Myanmar
India
China
Bangladesh
Nepal
Intergovernmental organization serving 8 regional member countries mandated for the Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH)
Regional platform for mountain learning, knowledge and enabling centre
Promote regional cooperation
Build capacities and link research with policy and practice
Regional Programmes & Thematic Areas
Regional Database Initiative
• Centre-wise database platform
• Incorporates geospatial, socioeconomic and multi-thematic data
• Integrated management of time-series databases and information systems
– Thematic organization of data
– River basin approach
– Transect/Landscape approach
• Data and information sharing policies
Livelihoods
Water and Air
Geospatial Solutions
Ecosystem Services
Long-term environment monitoring parameters & spatial scales
Household
Ecosystem
Landscape Approach
Variables: State and DynamicsIndicators: Net primary productivity, Greening/browning, Altitudinal shift of vegetational zones, etc.
Indicators: Demography pattern, Income, Pattern, Livestock pattern, etc.
Variables: Socio-economics of local communities
Variables: Flora
Indicators: Phytodiveresity, Phenology, Vegetation shift, etc.
Variables: Fauna
Indicators: Pop. Density,Diversity indices, CorridorsAnd habitat shift, expansion,etc.
Variables: Atmosphere
Indicators: Temperature, Precipitation, Relative humidity, Wind velocity, Solar radiation, etc.
Variables: Cryosphere
Indicators: Snow cover, Glacier area, Mass balance, Melt water yield, etc.
Drivers
of change ->
Cause
-effect
linka
ge -> Im
pact -> R
esponse
Landscapes and Transects in the HKH region
• Consistent and comparable data
• Co-location and network of centres for long-term monitoring on climate and ecological system
• Representation with latitudinal and longitudinal coverage
Biodiversity Significance of the HKH region
Crisis Ecoregion Biodiversity Hotspots
Endemic Bird Areas
Centre for Plant Diversity
Megadiversity Countries
High BD Wilderness Area
Frontier Forests
Last of the wild
Global 200 ecoregions
39% of terrestrial area under protected areas (488 PAs); 330 Important bird areas; 29 Ramsar sites; 60 Ecoregions Chettri et al. 2008
The HKH biodiversity dataStatus- what we know
Estimated number of species (Various sources) Amphibians Reptiles Birds Mammals Vascular
Plants
Afghanistan 6-8 92-112 428-515 137-150 3500-4000
Bangladesh 23 154 632 131 7400
Bhutan 2 29 770 165 5500 China 340 424 1221 502 32200 India 233 521 1200 422 18664 Myanmar 300 285 1200 300 7766
Nepal 77 123 864 203 6973 Pakistan 17 190 666 195 4950
Rationale for an open access database
• Scattered and isolated datasets with many players
• Lack of culture towards open access to data
• Intellectual property rights and other legal issues
• Lack of data discovery mechanism
• Fewer data are digitised and published
• Lack of compliance with data interoperability standards
• Variations in priorities, expertise and data requirements
Data sharing mechanism and platformsopen access, free data, public domain
• Regional Database Initiative• Thematic Geo Portals
(web-based access to GIS data and satellite imagery, interactive mapping and visualization, with the aim of providing scientists, environmental managers, and decision-makers with easy access to information)
• Land cover dynamics (Myanmar, Pakistna, Bhtan, Nepal)
• HKH Conservation Portal• HKH HYCOS (Regional Flood Info system)
• Status of Glaciers in the HKH Region• Forest Fire Detection & Monitoring (Nepal)
• Kathmandu Valley Earthquake Emergency & Response Management System
• Indus Basin Initiative• And many more
• HIMALDOC• HKH-BIF
Data Portals
Data Portals: HKH-CP, HKH-BIF, Mountain GeoPortals
• Regional repository - contains biodiversity and conservation related information from the HKH region
• Open access - which promotes free and open access to both primary and secondary data, information, and knowledge for conservation purposes
• Mutual benefit - encourages users to both use and contribute data, information, and knowledge
• Rights and responsibilities - gives full attribution to contributors for any use of their data
HKH-Conservation PortalPAs in proposed landscapes = 44PAs in HKH Region = 488Recorded Species = 10,571Threatenend Species = 86Data sets from HKH region = 46Total species from data sets = 17,201
PAs include IUCN Category from I to VI. Data available are from 2008.
HKH-BIFMore than 14,000 species list published More than 13,000 geo-referenced data collated and ready for publicationExtensive data collection from other protected areas and the landscapes in progress
By the end of 2013/14 more than 30,000 species listing expected
Global Outreach
ABCD.Net
Challenges and way forward
• Data sharing for improved decision making is not that easy (culture, practices)
• Addressing taxonomic anomaly and incentive for data publishing is still not very clear
• Sustaining activities without long term funding is a challenge
• Capacity building of partners limited – New MoUs with GLORIA, RBGE
• ICIMOD is in new MTAP (2013-2017) – Data-knowledge-policy interface – focusing on scientific and convincing – Data papers in preparation
• Continued support from GBIF members, mentoring, special agreement for initial stage support necessary
Future perspective
• Discover ALL available data
• Demand-driven publishing
• Be scientifically and socially relevant
• Follow components of ‘Strategy’ devising process.
• 5-10% budget for data generation and publishing from all biodiversity related projects
• Data management emphasized initiatives
• New features to be integrated in existing data portals
• Aspiration to be important partner to IPBES
Thank you