BioMAPping Nigeria
ADU Virtual Museum November 2014
Les Underhill
Animal Demography Unit
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Cape Town
http://adu.org.za
http://vmus.adu.org.za
APLORI, Jos, Plateau State
APLORI, Jos, Plateau State
APLORI, Jos, Plateau State
APLORI, Jos, Plateau State
APLORI, Jos, Plateau State
Rockwater, Jos, Plateau State
Rockwater, Jos, Plateau State
APLORI, Jos, Plateau State
Abuja
APLORI, Jos, Plateau State
APLORI, Jos, Plateau State
Abuja
APLORI, Jos, Plateau State
APLORI, Jos, Plateau State
Abuja
Victoria Island, Lagos
What’s the value?
• Contributions were made to eight of the sections of the Animal Demography Unit’s Virtual Museum at http://vmus.adu.org.za
• The crucial first step in setting priorities for biodiversity conservation is a knowledge of the distributions of each species and how they are changing
• We need 1000s of Virtual Museum records – photo-place-date – to build these distribution maps
What can you do to help?
Snap itand MAP it
The need for baselines
• We are building the baseline against which to measure how development and climate change are impacting Africa’s biodiversity
• Our ability to effectively manage and conserve the incredible abundance and diversity of life in Africa is compromised by our limited knowledge of up-to-date distribution patterns
The instructions for submitting records to the ADU Virtual Museum are
available at http://www.slideshare.net/meganloftieeaton/how-to-submit-records-to-the-
animal-demography-units-virtual-museums-28710898
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