BioMAPping Nigeria

ADU Virtual Museum November 2014

Les Underhill

Animal Demography Unit

Department of Biological Sciences

University of Cape Town

http://adu.org.za

http://vmus.adu.org.za

APLORI, Jos, Plateau State

APLORI, Jos, Plateau State

APLORI, Jos, Plateau State

APLORI, Jos, Plateau State

APLORI, Jos, Plateau State

Rockwater, Jos, Plateau State

Rockwater, Jos, Plateau State

APLORI, Jos, Plateau State

Abuja

APLORI, Jos, Plateau State

APLORI, Jos, Plateau State

Abuja

APLORI, Jos, Plateau State

APLORI, Jos, Plateau State

Abuja

Victoria Island, Lagos

What’s the value?

• Contributions were made to eight of the sections of the Animal Demography Unit’s Virtual Museum at http://vmus.adu.org.za

• The crucial first step in setting priorities for biodiversity conservation is a knowledge of the distributions of each species and how they are changing

• We need 1000s of Virtual Museum records – photo-place-date – to build these distribution maps

What can you do to help?

Snap itand MAP it

The need for baselines

• We are building the baseline against which to measure how development and climate change are impacting Africa’s biodiversity

• Our ability to effectively manage and conserve the incredible abundance and diversity of life in Africa is compromised by our limited knowledge of up-to-date distribution patterns

The instructions for submitting records to the ADU Virtual Museum are

available at http://www.slideshare.net/meganloftieeaton/how-to-submit-records-to-the-

animal-demography-units-virtual-museums-28710898

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