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The Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program, or CBMP, is a significant Arctic Council-endorsed, initiative to coordinate international monitoring efforts across the Arctic. It is an ecosystem-based approach that will improve detection and reporting of trends in Arctic biodiversity and identify and address data gaps. The purpose of this broad international monitoring effort is to strive for conservation of biological diversity, to halt or significantly reduce its loss, and provide information for the sustainable use of the Arctic’s living resources for the Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic, and other Arctic residents and stakeholders inside and outside the Arctic. The Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program is being developed as a direct result from recommendations for biodiversity monitoring made in the 2004 Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA).

  • The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is the lead US agency for the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), a working group of the Arctic Council, and this lead has been delegated to the Alaska Region. Scientific expertise provided by USFWS biologists is essential to the success of the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program. An international experts’ workshop was held in Anchorage November 29 – December 1, 2006 to begin developing the CBMP Implementation Plan. The workshop was led by Environment Canada and co-hosted by the USFWS. The CBMP Implementation Plan is expected to be completed in mid-2007

    Regional Director, Tom Melius giving speach at the Captain Cook. Photo Credit: USFWS
    Regional Director Tom Melius gives opening remarks at the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP) Implementaton Plan Experts Workshop on November 29, 2006

     

     

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    Staff and Managers are activelly engaged in CBMP Workshop. Photo Credit: USFWS
    USFWS and USGS managers and staff were actively engaged in the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP) Implementation Plan Experts Workshop, November 29-December 1, 2006

    groups cross-programmatic planning. Photo Credit: USFWS
    Subject experts from the USFWS and partnering organizations participated in cross-programmatic plannning at the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP) Implementation Plan Experts Workshop, Novermber 29 - December 1, 2006.

    Partners participated in the Workshop. Photo Credit: USFWS
    Subject experts from the USFWS and many international partners participated in the Circumplar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP) Implementation Plan Experts Workshop in Anchorage in November 29 - December 1, 2006

Last updated: June 26, 2008

 

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