Lead institution:
IOC IODE Programme and Marine World Heritage Centre of UNESCO – Belgium
eDNA Expeditions in marine World Heritage sites is a citizen-science project to reveal the richness of biodiversity in UNESCO’s flagship sites and its vulnerability to climate change.
Based on environmental DNA extracted from a liter of water, fish and red-list species will be detected and scientific results made publicly available.
This Project is hosted by the Ocean Decade Programme Ocean Biomolecular Observing Network (OBON)
Start Date: 01/01/2022
End Date: 31/12/2023
Lead Contacts: Ward Appeltans (w.appeltans@unesco.org) and Fanny Douvere (f.douvere@unesco.org)
To learn more about this Project, please click here.
challenges: Expand the Global Ocean Observing System, Protect and restore ecosystems and biodiversity, Sustainably feed the global population, Unlock ocean-based solutions to climate change
ocean_basins: Arctic Ocean, Indian Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean, South Pacific Ocean
type_of_action: Project