Hello group,

Tim Hirsch (cc) would like to remind you on vocabularies on pathways developed by Donald and the informatics team for the latest CBD/GIASIP work, based on the IUCN pathways categorization now accepted by the CBD (http://rs.gbif.org/sandbox/vocabulary/issg/status.xml) 

Tim also wrote that it is probably worth considering the new ‘IAS impact’ categories currently being developed by IUCN to mirror their extinction risk categories – see attached slide from Piero Genovesi’s  presentation to the SBSTTA side event in April. They are not in operation yet, but it might be some good future thinking to consider how these species-level attributes could be included in shared data.

Please add those lines to the relevant sections of your report draft or survey draft. I have now closed the minutes from the latest Skype call, please see the final section for the homework and the reminder of several deadlines on Friday this week.

Regards,

Dmitry