About NOBANIS
The North European and Baltic Network on Invasive Alien Species
(NOBANIS) has developped a network of common databases on alien and invasive
species of the region. By establishing a common portal access to
IAS-related data, information and knowledge in the region is facilitated.
NOBANIS is a network for cooperation between competent authorities of the
region and contributes to implementing recommendations from CBD’s COP6. One of
the goals of NOBANIS is to provide administrative tools for making the
precautionary approach operational in preventing the unintentional dispersal of
invasive alien species. Furthermore, NOBANIS establishes a regional
cooperation to aid countries in eradication, control and mitigation of
ecological effects of invasive alien species.
The database of alien species in NOBANIS will be used to identify species
that are invasive at present and species that may in the future become invasive.
NOBANIS thus provides the foundation for the future development of an early
warning system for invasive alien species.
The NOBANIS network builds on a previous regional project and on two
meetings between regional stakeholders:
NOBANIS is also an ongoing project and factsheets
for the most invasive alien species are written by regional experts
including species distributions and recommended preventive, eradication and
control measures. It is possible to extract information from NOBANIS
for facts sheets for dissemination to authorities, specialists, the news media
and the general public.
The NOBANIS network has a national contact in each of the
participating countries - Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Faroe Islands, Germany,
Greenland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the European
part of Russia.
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