This website is an information resourse only and does not represent the organisation or any of its members. The purpose of this wesbite is soley to provide access to information published by the Pacific Biodiversity Information Forum.

For information concerning the Pacific Biodiversity Information Forum (PBIF), please contact Rhyn Davies at rdavies@usgs.gov.

Pacific Biodiversity Information Forum

The need for a Pacific Biodiversity Information Forum to provide a venue and support for biodiversity information needs in the Pacific Basin was established during the GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) meeting on Maui in May of 2002. Interested parties met again during the October 2003 GBIF meeting in Tsukuba, Japan and reaffirmed the need and began to draw up a governing structure for PBIF and identify specific biodiversity needs in the Pacific Basin that can be addressed through projects. The leadership and other interested parties met again at the April 2004 GBIF meeting in Oaxaca, Mexico to begin defining the organization. The interim organizing committee met again in October of 2005 in Wellington, New Zealand to define projects, responsibilities, timelines and deliverables.