Bouchout Declaration successfully launched
The Bouchout Declaration on Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management has been successfully launched on June 12 at the Bouchout Castle, National Botanic Garden Meise, Belgium with 105 signatories.
Image 1. The official signing ceremony. Left to right: Walter Berendsohn, BGBM; Edwin van Huis, Naturalis; Gregor Hagedorn, MfN; Jan van Tol, Naturalis and moderator.
Image 2. The official signing ceremony. Left to right: Donat Agosti, Plazi, coordinator; Edwin van Huis, Naturalis; Walter Berendsohn, BGBM; Gregor Hagedorn, MfN.
The Bouchout Declaration on Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management has been successfully launched on June 12 at the Bouchout Castle, National Botanic Garden Meise, Belgium during the final meeting of the EU-funded pro-Biosphere project.
57 organizations and 58 individuals signed the Declaration, including some of the largest natural history institutions like Kew, Naturalis, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin, Harvard MCZ, California Academy of Sciences, InBIO and the Brazilian Virtual Herbarium of Flora and Fungi; scientific institutions like GBIF, IUBS or the Belgian Science Policy Office.
The Declaration remains open to sign – please consider discussing its principles, consider implementing them and ultimately to sign it.
More than 200 signatories of the Bouchout Declaration
Within the first three weeks of the launch of the Bouchout Declaration on Open Biodiversity Knowledge Management, the number of signatories reached more than 200. This is an unprecedented sign of the biodiversity community to... » more
What is the possible impact of the Bouchout Declaration?
During the final event of the pro-iBiosphere project a panel of representatives of the biodiversity community discussed the potential impact of the Declaration.
This project is funded under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement №312848.
