How does an “All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI)” promote and facilitate local and global biodiversity conservation?

ABSTRACT Long-lasting tropical wildland biodiversity conservation will occur only through non-damaging use of that biodiversity by a wide array of social sectors. An All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) of any large conserved wildland, essentially a biodiversity development project, is therefore simultaneously a conservation project, despite the fact that its superficial appearance is basically the science and administration of finding, organizing, and distributing information for as many species as possible in a defined period (usually 5-10 years for a large area). This process is highly international in personnel and subject matter, highly dependent on resident biodiversity managers, expensive, public domain, and best carried out on-the-job as learning-by-doing.

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