BON in a Box is an initiative of the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON). It helps countries, researchers, and monitoring networks find tools, share projects, and turn biodiversity data into results they can use for monitoring, conservation planning, and reporting.
Building a biodiversity monitoring programme involves choosing what to measure, finding suitable methods, and making sense of the data you collect. Teams often face similar questions, even when they work in different places. BON in a Box helps teams connect with others working on similar questions, share what they’ve learned, and adapt existing methods to their local needs.
BON in a Box brings together three components to support different parts of biodiversity monitoring. You can use each on its own or combine them depending on what your team needs.
For example, a team starting a regional monitoring programme could browse the Tools Portal for software to analyse species records, check the Projects Portal to see who is already monitoring nearby, and run a BEE pipeline to find out how much of the region is both protected and connected.
BON in a Box is for government teams, researchers, conservation organizations, and biodiversity observation networks working at local, regional, national, or global scales. A Biodiversity Observation Network, or BON, brings people and organizations together to coordinate how they monitor biodiversity and share what they learn.
BON in a Box is backed by contributions from the GEO BON community, including scientific researchers, monitoring practitioners, and partner organizations. The community helps expand what’s available by sharing tools and projects, developing and reviewing workflows, and testing them in different settings.
