On 8 November 2023, the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) organised the final event of the NatGuidES project in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where they presented the manual for the identification, assessment and mapping of ecosystem services (ES). The manual has been developed within the framework of the project to define practical steps for the implementation of the concept of ES in protected are...

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This press release was published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo. Engaging discussions, keynote speeches and a picturesque field trip marked the second SELINA thematic workshop. The second SELINA thematic workshop took place from 2-5 October 2023 in Madrid, Spain, hosted by SELINA’s partner Rey Juan Carlos University. This hybrid event with the theme "Advancing solutions" (for mapping, assessment and accounting of ecosystems and their se...

The second SELINA thematic workshop will take place from 2-5 October 2023 in the CaixaForum cultural centre in Madrid, Spain. The hybrid format of the event will allow for more than 80 participants to attend on-site and around 20 more to join online. Among the participants will be SELINA’s partners, Advisory Board members, early career researchers and local stakeholders from the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge...

On 14 September 2023, a training on the use of the PlanWise4Blue platform took place in Sigulda, Latvia. The event was organised by the team of the ADRIENNE+ project (University of Tartu) in cooperation with the SELINA team from the Baltic Environmental Forum – Latvia. The PlanWise4Blue is an online GIS platform developed by scientists at the University of Tartu that aims to provide science-based support for assessing the impacts of human activiti...

The 52nd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ Annual Meeting 2023) took place in Leipzig, Germany from 12-16 September 2023, hosted by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig. The conference was held under the motto “The Future of Biodiversity – overcoming barriers of taxa, realms and scales”, and welcomed more than 1 100 participants from around 30 countr...

From 6 - 8 September 2023, the University of Trento hosted the second BioValue project meeting, which aims at advancing biodiversity's value by supporting EU strategic actions through transformative change in spatial planning and policymaking. The aim of the BioValue project is to incorporate biodiversity information at different levels of the decision-making process for spatial policy and planning practices. This will increase the opportuni...

From 28 August to 2 September 2023, the tenth session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES 10) took place. The Plenary was hosted by the United States of America in Bonn, Germany and attracted scientists, experts and policymakers from across the globe. SELINA representatives from UNEP-WCMC, FSD and NIGG-BAS were also among the delegates and had the opportunity to celebrate on...

A recent publication in the Nature journal, based on the IPBES Values Assessment, studies concepts that are referred to in SELINA’s work. The paper argues that there is an urgent need to understand how and why nature is (under)valued, to reconsider the prioritisation of a subset of values, particularly those linked to markets, and to ignore other ways people relate to and benefit from nature. Derived from over 50,000 scientific studies, policy...

In June 2023, the first SELINA-supported research paper “Accounting for forest condition in Europe based on an international statistical standard” was published in the Nature Communications journal. It examines the condition of forest ecosystems, their crucial role in safeguarding biodiversity and mitigating climate change, and the threat forest degradation poses to key ecosystems and society. The paper provides a spatially explicit assessment of ...

From 3 – 7 July 2023 the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography (NIGGG-BAS), which is one of the Bulgarian partners in the SELINA project, co-organised an innovative field course for secondary school students titled “Education for and by karst”. A total of 17 students from two secondary schools in Sofia, Bulgaria took part in the training. One of the modules in the course focused on the mapping and assessment of ecosyste...

We are proud to announce that Joana Vicente from the SELINA partner Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO) in Portugal is a fellow in one of the chapters of the Assessment Report on Invasive Alien Species and their Control (known as the Invasive Alien Species Report) developed by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). The unveiling of the Invasive Alien Species Report will take place o...

The Ecosystem Department of the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI) is looking for a Project Officer to work on the SELINA (Science for evidence-based and sustainable decisions about natural capital) project in which SAERI is currently involved. The duration of the position is 22 months starting September 2023. The position will be based in both Falkland Island (September 2023 - July 2024) and St. Helena (August 2024 - Jun...

This press release was published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo. EU HORIZON project SELINA shows real-world examples of how knowledge on biodiversity, ecosystems and ecosystem services can be used to support evidence-based public and private decision-making. The SELINA project achieved a significant milestone with the official launch of its Demonstration Projects (DPs), which was held online on 7 June 2023. Hosted online by Capitals Coal...

On 23 May 2023, in Riga, Latvia, the SELINA partners Baltic Environmental Forum Latvia and the Ministry of Environment Protection and Regional Development of the Republic of Latvia jointly organised the first meeting of the Latvian Community of Practice (CoP). The local CoP started during the ESMERALDA project and was now re-established by SELINA, involving both former and new members. The meeting brought together more than 30 expe...