INTER-AMERICAN BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION NETWORK (IABIN)

INVASIVES INFORMATION NETWORK (I3N)PROGRESS REPORT

Sean Townsend

I3N Lead- Jamaica

Senior Research Officer JA-CHM

Natural History Division

The IABIN Invasives Information Network (I3N)

• integrates and provides access to invasive alien

species (IAS) information from countries of the

western hemisphere

• support the detection and control of IAS.

• supports the creation of standardized national IAS

databases

• Easy to use tools.

I3N

PILOT PROJECT

• Coordinated by NBII• 12 countries took part in 2002• Tools to collect and exchange IAS

information– Trilingual I3N Website (Spanish, Portuguese & English)

– Search tools– Online collaboration community and e-mail list

(listserv)

– IAS Catalogue

National Focal Point

I3N TWGCoordinating Institution (NBII)

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I3N TECHNICAL WORKING GROUP (TWG)

• Guides annual work

plan development,

advises CI

• IABIN at-large

observer invited and

funded for last 2

meetings

Rita Besana IABIN Secretariat

Andrea Grosse* I3N Coordinador

Jacqueline Klaver PAIGH

Boris Ramirez IABIN Secretariat

Richard Smith BioNET-International

Annie Simpson USA

Sean Townsend Jamaica

Sergio Zalba Argentina

Sílvia Ziller Brazil

William Ulate* SSTN Technical Lead

I3N Database on IAS template

• Customized with vocabulary for habitat and

political subdivision specific to each country

• Automated output (XML-tagged) for sharing

information with other systems

• Unlimited number of data providers can enter

data from anywhere in your country

• National I3N Leads control

I3N TOOLS

I3N template support

• Free Internet hosting

• Free technical support for start-up I3N Web

Interface template

I3N TOOLS

I3N TOOLS

• Documents available online• Pub. Ed. Tools• Training Workshop• Content Building Grants• Global Network of experts• Collaborations with other international

organizations

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Countries with Leads – 2004: 12 2007: 16

• Old website– Major enhancements in 2006– Visits during Dec06: 3,090 – Visits 1st Quarter 2007: 10,141

• New website– Country homepages: 16– Documents accessible: national = 243; general = 43

ACHIEVEMENTS (2)• I3N list server subscribers

– Old list, Oct06 = 287– New list, Apr07 = 280 (518 = iabinfriends)

• Pilots in Asia, Africa: 3 workshops – Horus Institute, GISIN, TNC, Univ. Nac. del

Sur, GISP, CABI!

• Global collaborations – GISP, GISIN, TNC, CABI, PBIF, GEOSS,

TDWG, ISSG/GISD, ASEAN

ACHIEVEMENTS (3)

• Tools– Search engine updated– New I3N database template– Country Web System template– Manuals online– Risk assessment tool– Pathways assessment tool

• Concepts / tools trainingPeople trained: Dec06 = 503; Mar07 = 524 IABIN countries: Dec06 = 16; Mar07 = 16 All countries: Dec06 = 25; Mar07 = 34

• Content grants 2006: 9

Paraguay ‘06

Jamaica ‘06

Bahamas ‘06

Chile 2006

SCB: Brazil +++ 2005

Uruguay 2005

Colombia ‘06Venezuela ‘06

Costa Rica ‘06

Dominican Republic ‘05

Mexico ‘06

Ecuador ‘06

Counties where workshops were conducted

Beyond IABIN

• GISIN: 2006

• Africa: 2006

• Malaysia, Bangladesh, China, Sri Lanka, Seychelles, Portugal: 2007

I3N JAMAICA• Pilot Project 2002

– Catalogue, – Pub Ed Tools- brochure, – Questionnaire to assess IAS knowledge base in the

country

• Content Building Grant recipient May 2006

• RADA Pest Integrated Pest Management Project

• Articles for Journals • Field Guide

I3N JAMAICA

• Internet Accessible Database

• CABI “Mitigating the threat of Invasive Species in the Insular Caribbean”

• Joint IABIN meeting with IWCAM– Caribbean focus IABIN Meeting