The CNRS, France’s largest public research organisation, has joined up with the National Museum of Natural History and the AFB, the government agency for biodiversity, to create a centre of expertise on data from the natural world.
The centre, to be based at the museum, will have a budget of €1.2 million in 2018, the CNRS said in a statement on 11 December. It will have four goals:
- To help the national inventory of natural heritage reach 100 million entries
- To produce indicators for biodiversity in France
- To develop public engagement and participation projects to promote biodiversity
- To boost research that can feed into France’s national biodiversity strategy.
The centre will be operational early next year, and 105 staff from both the AFB and the museum will be involved, the CNRS said.
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