June 11 Monday
Presenters:Jeff Manuel (SANBI Deputy Director: Land Use and Environmental
Management),Sediqa Khatieb (SANBI BGIS project manager),Martin Cocks (BGIS web developer)
The Biodiversity GIS (BGIS) website, offers free
and comprehensive spatial biodiversity datasets and tools to support
decision-making, research, policy formulation and biodiversity monitoring and was developed and hosted here at Biodiversity and Conservation Biology Department, University of the Western Cape. It is a web-based GIS that provides extensive coveration of spatial environmental data for South Africa. The project is managed through South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI). The training course provided an introduction
to systematic conservation planning, followed by the practical applications of
the BGIS website.
Visit http://bgis.sanbi.org
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