The consortium of European partners comprised:

This is the report of a project to define an integrated multimedia resource package for biodiversity conservation. This Definition Phase project would be followed by an Implementation Phase project that would produce the final product for the market.

In its final form, the product is intended to serve the needs of the general public and professionals for comprehensive information on biological conservation, also making available sources of information that are currently difficult or expensive to access.

The major challenges of the Definition Phase were to:

This describes an information product that helps policy makers and the general user to understand the links between the threats to biodiversity, the various responses society is making to counter these environmental threats and the impact of both on the conservation of species and ecosystems.

The contents of this integrated multimedia resource package comprise globally comprehensive:

Final Report of Definition Phase

Information Context for Biodiversity Conservation

Project No. 5052

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Project date: 1997-2000

A project begun under the aegis of the INFO2000 programme of the European Commission (Directorate General XIII)

The INFO2000 project – called Information Context for Biodiversity Conservation - has been subject to feasibility testing in 1997 ("Definition Phase") and is now supported in its "Implementation Phase" by the European Union and four European NGO partners ("the Consortium").

Project date: 1997-2000

A project begun under the aegis of the INFO2000 programme of the European Commission (Directorate General XIII)

The INFO2000 project – called Information Context for Biodiversity Conservation - has been subject to feasibility testing in 1997 ("Definition Phase") and is now supported in its "Implementation Phase" by the European Union and four European NGO partners ("the Consortium").