1. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity How to plan for Nature? Testing workshop Camp Reinsehlen, 25 – 27 January 2012

2. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity l How to plan for nature? Part 1 –By Ben Delbaere –Senior Programme Manager, ECNC

3. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity What is biodiversity? l Do you know?

4. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

5. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

6. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity So, what is biodiversity?

7. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity CBD definition l "Biological diversity" means the variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part; this includes diversity within species, between species and of ecosystems.

8. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Building blocks

9. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Species

10. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Charismatic species

11. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Less charismatic species

12. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Species – new discoveries Horse fly - Scaptia beyonceae Smallest vertebrate species on Earth – Paedophryne amauensis

13. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Habitat: species’ living environment

14. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Habitats: environmental conditions

15. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Habitats: also man made

16. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Ecosystems

17. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Genes

18. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Why is biodiversity important?

19. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

20. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Biodiversity is the basis for our food...

21. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

22. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Valuing biodiversity l The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital: USD 33 trillion per year

23. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity How to measure biodiversity?

24. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Biodiversity indicators

25. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

26. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Indicator harmonization l CBD Headline indicators l Streamlining European Biodiversity Indicators l National indicators