Side Event
Biodiversity Nature Detectives - Launch of Pilot Platform
Organizer
Bundesamt fur Naturschutz/SCBD
Date and Time
16 February 2004 13:15 - 14:45
<br><b>BioDets: a pilot-website on nature observation</b> <br><b>BioDets:</b>Biodiversity Detectives <a href=http://www.BioDets.net>www.BioDets.net</a> is an Internet-based pilot-platform on nature observation, which is being officially launched at this COP-7 side event. <br> <br>The BioDets pilot-platform is expected to gather practical information on how Internet-based initiatives can be used for the stimulation and facilitation of global intercultural communication based on nature in general and more specifically, on biological diversity. <br><br>BioDets was initiated through a bilateral initiative between two national nature observation projects: the German Multimedia-project “Nature-Detectives” and the Russian “Children´s Ecological Cooperation Network”, to stimulate intercultural communication on nature and biological diversity. BioDets is developed therefore in three languages: English, German and Russian. In this phase only one theme, “Water”, is presented. Participants from all over the world are invited to submit their observations and local experiences about “Water”. All presentations can be written on special Websites - the Reports. The reports should facilitate the exchange of information – to make participants visible – and to further facilitate contact building. <br><br>The aim of BioDets is not only to facilitate German-Russian cooperation and communication on nature but also to offer the platform to all other signatory countries of the CBD interested in improving international interaction and communication (related to natural observations) via the Internet. As such, BioDets contributes to the CBD´s global initiative on Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA). <br><br>BioDets further aims to provide a practical example of how new media and especially the Internet, could be used to increase links between humans and nature through the global exchange of experiences, opinions and observations among participants.