CONSERVATION COMMONS
About the Commons
Environmental degradation and habitat loss continue to accelerate.
Solutions may be found to reverse this trend, but only with
comprehensive data, information and knowledge on the conservation
and sustainable use of biodiversity. Data access and knowledge
sharing are not simple tasks, however. Difficulties abound.
Much of the data, information and knowledge conservationists
require is fragmented, difficult to find, or simply not accessible
to the conservation community. This challenge is magnified in
many developing countries where the consequences of the ever-widening
“digital divide” impede conservation efforts at
national, regional, and global levels.
The global community made a commitment in Johannesburg to
significantly reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010,
as well as to track progress towards achieving this target.
Open and efficient access to the best available scientific
information, knowledge, and best practice is central to this
effort - with anything less this target will not be met.
The Conservation Commons is a cooperative effort amongst
like-minded conservation organizations and research institutions
which is responding to this challenge by seeking to break
down barriers to access, more effectively connect practioners
to data and information assets, as well as to develop and
adopt standards for integrating these assets to support the
generation of knowledge and best practice. The purpose
of the Conservation Commons is to ensure open access and fair
use of data, information, expertise, and knowledge on the
conservation of biodiversity for the benefit of the global
conservation community and beyond.
Conservation Commons Brochure (PDF):
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For more information, www.conservationcommons.org
contact us
IUCN Canada Office
555 René-Levesque Boulevard, West Suite 500
Montréal, Québec - Canada, H2Z 1B1
Phone: +1-514-287-9704
Fax: +1 514 287 9687
contact@conservationcommons.org
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