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Capacities for Biodiversity and Sustainable Development

https://cebios.naturalsciences.be/
Newsletter #5 - February 2023
1. Second International Conference on Biodiversity in the Congo Bassin
CEBioS, together with the Centre de Surveillance de la Biodiversité in Kisangani, DRC, is organising the 2nd International Conference on Biodiversity in the Congo Basin, from 6-10 March 2023. This important conference will take place in Kisangani, in the middle of the Congo Basin forests. Almost 400 interested parties have registered for this event and registration is now closed. All registered participants have received logistic information.
The organising committee, counting many CEBioS members, is very happy to welcome participants soon in Kisangani. Please note that the video contest is closed. The organisers wish to thank all participants for the submitted videos.

More information and programme available on the event website.

2. A One-Day Seminar on the GTI Programme
On Thursday 16 February 2023, CEBioS invited trainees, tutors and all interested externals to a short seminar on the GTI programme. As a reminder, the Belgian National Focal Point (NFP) for the Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI) seeks to develop and strengthen taxonomic and conservation capacities in the partner countries of the Belgian Development Cooperation.

On this date, several GTI fellows were present in Belgium, and CEBioS took this opportunity to meet and gather about experiences and potential improvements of the GTI programme.

This day took place at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, in the Small Auditorium.
3. Successful Side-Event from CEBioS and UNESCO at COP15

CEBioS & UNESCO held a side-event during COP15. The event started with a presentation on best practices and lessons learnt from 10 years of Capacity Development in Africa, with some examples about the Global Taxonomy Initiative, Monitoring-Reporting-Verification (MRV), Awareness raising, Habitat Monitoring and the Clearing House Mechanism. All this also fitted into CEBioS efforts to mainstream Biodiversity into the realm of development Cooperation and the Sustainable development Goals.

A second part was devoted to the presentation of a new practical manual on ecosystem services assessment in African Biosphere reserves: the ‘EVAMAB’ 3-year project was financed by the Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO) and coordinated/implemented by CEBioS and a consortium of Belgian and African Universities. EVAMAB is a project of BELSPO and the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme.

All presentations and speakers are available here.
4. New Lexicon on Habitats of the Itombwe Nature Reserve (DRC)
This manual is part of the pedagogical tools designed with the support of the DGD and through the partnership between the IRSNB and the ICCN, mainly focused on the reinforcement of the capacities of the latter's staff to sustainably manage the Protected Areas in DR Congo. This component includes the promotion of research actions undertaken by young Congolese on the dynamics of habitats in these areas and the training of field staff who apply LEM (Law Enforcement Monitoring). Thus, workshops are organised to acquire the skills to collect standardised information on the evolution of habitats. You will find the Lexicon in the CEBioS publications, in the page dedicated to Lexicons.
5. Current and upcoming CEBioS Calls
CEBioS has recently launched a variety of calls, whether in regarding the Global Taxonomy Initiative (GTI), MRV, Awareness or the reinforcement of CHM websites. We would like to thank all researchers, experts, students, new and old, who respond to our calls.

Please check our website frequently to be informed of open calls, as these are annual.

All our past trainees are welcome to join the CEBioS Alumni network. Still not a member ? Ask Pierre Huybrechts, CEBioS Communication Officer. 

 
6. Booklet on snake species of the DRC (FR) 
This book, "Les espèces de serpents de la République Démocratique du Congo", describes the results of ten years of field data collection and identification of specimens in the field and laboratory. These specimens were collected from several types of habitats during different field trips. The aim of this book is to bring together in an accessible form recent knowledge on the snakes of the DR Congo, and to develop an awareness-raising book to identify some venomous and non-venomous snake species in the field.

The author, Akuboy Bondongola Jeannot, thanks the VLIR-UOS project and the Centre de Surveillance de la Biodiversité of the University of Kisangani for their financial and moral support. He also sincerely thanks the CEBioS programme and its managers for agreeing to layout, edit and print the physical version of this book.

Please find the book here.
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CEBioS assists partner countries of the Belgian Development Cooperation to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) as well as other international agreements related to the sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity.
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