1. Side Event: GEOGLOWS and the Harmonization of GEO Water Activities
Freshwater BON
Erin Hestira, Eren Turakb,c, Aaike De Weverd, Jeanne Nele, Ian Harrisonf
aUniversity of California Merced, Merced, CA USA
bNSW Office of Environment and Heritage, Sydney South, Australia cAustralian Museum, Sydney, Australia dOD Natural Environment, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium eSustainability Research Unit, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, George, South Africa
fConservation International, Arlington, VA USA
Side Event: GEOGLOWS and the Harmonization of GEO Water Activities

2. Mission / Objectives and Goals
Freshwater BON
Mission / Objectives and Goals
What is it?
The FW BON is a voluntary community of practice that promotes the establishment of best practices for tracking change in global biodiversity of inland waters.
Vision for 2020
A network of experts and practitioners capable of making a global assessment of status and trends of freshwater biodiversity possible so that progress towards the 2020 targets of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) can be measured accurately with respect to inland water habitats.

3. Freshwater BON Geographical Scope Promoting best practices:
Improve harmonized data collection 
Develop data standards and methods for data management and dissemination
Facilitate data sharing
Integrate biodiversity information with physical and chemical data
Produce products useful for sound management of catchments, rivers, lakes, wetlands and subterranean aquatic ecosystems.
FWBON Membership

4. Freshwater BON Planned Activities
Harmonize tools, methods and approaches to facilitate globally consistent assessments of freshwater biodiversity
Assist in mobilizing freshwater biodiversity data globally
Support IUCN’s Red list of Ecosystems team, especially in the development of global classification of freshwater ecosystems
Support its members in developing monitoring programs, applying for funding, and publishing their work
Support GEOBON’s Working Groups and Regional and National BON’s
Work with other GEO freshwater groups GEOGLOWS, GEOWetlands, AquaWatch and other global initiatives e.g Global Wetlands Observing System, Sustainable Water Futures Project

5. Plans and Deliverables for 2018-2019
Freshwater BON
Plans and Deliverables for
Deliverables
Macroinvertebrate and fish sampling protocols
Use of indigenous and local knowledge
Data mobilization
eDNA, algae, zooplankton, phytoplankton fungi and periphyton sampling protocols
Harmonized observations of reptiles, mammals, birds and amphibians
Harmonized protocols for eco-acoustic monitoring
General Plans
Grow and activate the network
Globally harmonized sampling protocols
Indigenous and local knowledge
Data mobilization
Global classification of FW ecosystems

6. Plans for cross SBA linkages and SDG support
Freshwater BON
Plans for cross SBA linkages and SDG support
Links to other SBAs or initiatives
Potential links to the Sustainable Water Future Programme
Information will be useful to assessing Aichi Targets; Ramsar Convention goals
Contributions to SDGs
SDG Target 15.1: By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements
SDG Target 15.5: Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species
Challenges and Opportunities
EWVs and ECVs needed to track drivers in biodiversity
Cross –linking EBVs with EWVs
GEOGLOWS and the Harmonization of
GEO Water Activities

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