Asia-Pacific Biodiversity Observation Network (AOGEO TG2)
Hiroyuki Muraoka | APBON Co-chair
http://www.esabii.biodic.go.jp/ap-bon/index.html
Meetings
Webinar series
Presentation files

APBON’s New
Strategy paper

13th AOGEOSymposium

APBON Web seminar 2020-2021
Organizer:
Ministry of the Environment (MOE) - Japan
http://www.esabii.biodic.go.jp/ap-bon/meetings/index.html
Kick-off Meeting
Date: 29 June 2020
• Yongyut Trisurat (Kasetsart University) Digital Atlas of Trees
and Wildlife in Thailand:Transforming Analog Localities toWeb-based GIS Maps
• Sheila Vergara (ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, Co-chair ofAPBON) Status of Coastal and Marine Conservation in theASEAN region
2ndDate: 27 August 2020
• Alice Hughes (Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden)
Preventing the next pandemic• Yuichi Kano (Kyushu University) Waterfalls drive parallel
evolution in a freshwater goby
3rdDate: 22 October 2020
• Po Teen Lim (University of Malaya) The use of molecularapproaches in marine ecosystem health assessment andresearch in Malaysia• Laetitia Navarro (GEO BON) Update on activities and post2020 vision

4thDate: 10 December 2020
• Yao Tze Leong (Forest Research Institute Malaysia)
The origin of mangosteen: review and outlook• Takashi Hosono (Japan Agency for Marine-EarthScience and Technology) Collecting and sharing
framework of marine biodiversity data in the NorthWestern Pacific region
5thDate: 21 January 2021
• Bunthang Touch (Inland Fisheries Research andDevelopment Institute) Fish Spawning Habitats in theMekong and 3S(*) Rivers in Cambodia (*)3S Rivers: 3rivers that flow into Mekong River; Sesan, Srepok andSekong Rivers• Chheang Dany (Forestry Administration, Cambodia)
Cambodiaʼs Forests and Biodiversity
Management:Paradigm Shift, Challenges andOpportunities
6thDate: 25 February 2021
• Eun-Shik Kim (Kookmin University) Ecologicalobservation of the declining Korean fir forest on thehigher altitude area of Mt. Hallasan National Park, Jeju
Island, Korea, under changing climate aided by the ICT(information and communications technology)• Tomoaki Miura (University of Hawaii, JAMSTEC)
Exploring New Remote Sensing Data for theCharacterization of Tropical Phenology

12th APBON Workshop / AOGEO TG2 meeting (22 Jan 2021)

Alice Hughes(Xishuangbanna Tropical
Botanical Garden, CAS)

Mangal Man Shakya(Nepal BON)

Spa!al scale/Observa!onGlobal

Regional

Na!onalEarthobserva!onand others

Biodiversity
observa!onand others
Networking/Facilita!ngIUCN
and others
Regional assessment

2009

2019
2020

2030

Biodiversity datapla"ormMissions:• Networking of institutions andresearch groups• Promoting collaborative projects
and shared information• Delivering a scientific knowledge fordecision makers for theconservation of biodiversity andecosystems

New missions:
CBD
COP15

Future Earthand others

ForestGEO
and others

Research & funds

In-situ monitoringsite networks

Achievements:
Contribution to IPBES regional
assessmentl Data sharingl Engagement of scientists withnational and regional BONs
through meetings and projects
lKey activities:

Promoting interdisciplinaryl Biodiversity research andresearch and problem-solving
monitoring: promoting nationalapproaches with filling theBONs, improving knowledge using
observational and knowledge gaps
cutting-edge technologies
l Promoting data sharing and datal Networking of networks:
accessibility through/by networking facilitating both science- andof the observation networks
policy-relevant society.
l Delivering our information andl Capacity building: training
knowledge to stakeholders andworkshops of monitoring skills for
global platforms
students and practitioners atNGOsl