Getting down to business 🤝

This week, the #GBIFZimbabwe node is hosting a workshop in Harare focused on #BusinessSector engagement and capacity building. It brings together colleagues from the Endangered Wildlife Trust, node staff from #GBIFMalawi and invited guests Ricardo Ortiz Gallego (#SiBColombia) and Niels Raes (#NLBIF).💚

This event is connected to the 2025 GBIF #CESP project, which aims to strengthen engagement with the private sector across Southern Africa. 🔗 https://gbif.link/CESP_ZW

Big boost for Balkan biodiversity data! 😍

🌳 A project led by Svetlana Miteva and Dennis Wansink through The Habitat Foundation set out in 2022–24 to support biodiversity data mobilization across the Balkans, resulting in 1,441,356 records published to GBIF! ⭐

This incredible effort represents +89% increase in the published data on biodiversity from the Balkans. 🥳

Data mobilization efforts were supported by Dimitri Brosens and #NLBIF 💚

https://gbif.link/balkans_data

Xeno-canto is an online database that provides access to wildlife sound recordings and soundscapes from around the world.

Since launching in 2005 with a focus on birds, 🐦 the platform has expanded taxonomic coverage and contains records collected by both professional and citizen scientists. 🔎

Records are made available for publishing through support of #NLBIF.

Explore > 810,000 records on GBIF: 🔗https://gbif.link/xenocanto

Check out the project: 🔗 https://xeno-canto.org/

An overnight refresh to data from Observation.org has pushed the #GBIF index past #3billion occurrence records!

With *just* under 100 million records (wait till next week!), this 🇳🇱-based NGO is also a formal #GBIF Participant, whose massive #CitizenScience contributions often go overlooked.

Hartelijk gefeliciteerd en bedankt to Dylan Verheul & the whole Observation.org team!
https://www.gbif.org/publisher/c8d737e0-2ff8-42e8-b8fc-6b805d26fc5f/metrics

@Naturalis #NLBIF #Natagora #Natuurpunt #Zostera