Aug. 26, 2007
The EU announced on May 9 that it will assist in developing a global species information system. The project, introduced in Washington, DC on the same day, is a follow-up to the G8+5 talks held two months earlier in Potsdam, Germany. The EU will allocate funds to collect data from across Europe for its new SpeciesBase.
In the same week the European Commission launched NET-BIOME, a new research initiative to help preserve the rich biodiversity of the EU's tropical and subtropical regions. The bloc's outermost and overseas territories encompass five of the world's 34 biodiversity 'hotspots.'
