International institutions
· "At the center of the UN Biodiversity Lab is a partnership between UNDP and UN Environment
to provide high quality data for government representatives. UNDP and UN Environment’s direct
engagement with over 140 governments allows for dynamic updates to the platform based on actual
user needs. Likewise, engagement with 15 technical partners and data providers ensures the provision
of cutting-edge data to take action for sustainable development. The UN Biodiversity Lab is not just
another website; it is a platform for building partnerships among data providers and data users to
ensure that governments have access and capacity to use cutting-edge spatial data to make key
conservation and development decisions."
IUCN SSC Species Monitoring Specialist Group
Global Database of Species Population Monitoring Schemes
Database of Biodiversity Data Sources for Conservation Monitoring
Government institutions
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI)
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
Smithsonian Marine Station (SMS)
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
· The Smithsonian Conservation Commons appears to have been absorbed here.
Independent institutions
African Wildlife Economy Institute
· “...critically examines the growing inter-relationships between biodiversity conservation and security."
Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chizé (CEBC)
Durrell Insittute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE)
Earth BioGenome Project @ Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory @ Arizona State University
iDiv: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
International Bio-logging Society
International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature (ISPN)
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
· “...Our vision is to understand and predict animal decision-making in the natural world. By
developing and applying emerging technological and analytical approaches, our mission is
to reveal the drivers of behavior across temporal, spatial, organizational, and taxonomic scales.”