Using Regulatory Data and Surveillance Tools to Understand Marine Protected Areas and to Inform Decision-Making

Deirdre Brannigan
Communications and Community Engagement Liaison, ProtectedSeas 
Virgil Zetterlind
Director and Chief Technology Officer, ProtectedSeas
Samantha King
Senior Scientist for Marine Monitor (M2)

Recording of SMSG webinar 9, Wednesday 18 October 2023

Monitoring Species for Conservation: Lessons Learned on Data Collection and Use

In this IUCN Species Programme webinar, chaired by PJ Stephenson, we heard about projects focusing on lemurs in Madagascar, tigers in Bhutan and addax in Chad and Niger, and discussed the challenges and lessons from monitoring mammals for conservation purposes.

You can watch the recording on YouTube HERE .

IUCN SSC Taskforce on Global Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Sampling Protocols (GLOSAM)
Dr John Simaika
Institute for Water Education - Delft, The Netherlands
Recording of SMSG webinar 8, Monday 5 June 2023

Using camera traps to monitor savanna and forest vertebrates in a protected area in Ghana
Kofi Amponsah-Mensah
Centre for Biodiversity Conservation Research
University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana 
Recording of SMSG webinar 7, Thursday 16 March 2023

Factors affecting the availability of data on East African wildlife: the monitoring needs of conservationists are not being met
Inès Moreno MSc
KORA, Ittigen, Switzerland
Recording of SMSG Webinar 6, Friday 17 February 2023

The Species Threat Abatement and Restoration (STAR) Metric
Frank Hawkins
IUCN
Recording of SMSG Webinar 5, Thursday 28 April 2022

Species monitoring data and the Living Planet Index
Louise McRae
Indicators and Assessments Research Unit, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, UK
Recording of SMSG Webinar 4, Thursday 10 March 2022

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - 1.9 billion species occurrence records and counting
Andrew Rodrigues
Programme Officer for Participation and Engagement, GBIF Secretariat, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Recording of SMSG Webinar 3, 16 February 2022.

Monitoring recovery with the IUCN Green Status of Species (Part 1 and Part 2)
Molly Grace
Co-Chair, IUCN Green Status of Species Working Group, University of Oxford, UK.
Recording of SMSG Webinar 1, 5 November 2021.

The IUCN SSC Species Monitoring Specialist Group: Overview and Future Direction by PJ Stephenson
Video of the Chair's presentation to the Group's meeting, 24 June 2021.
Note one typo: GBIF has more than 1.8 billion records (not more than 3.3 billion).