2nd Meeting of the UK Biodiversity Indicators Forum
The 2nd UK Biodiversity Indicators forum meeting took place on
16th June 2003 and was hosted by Defra. The programme for the day
is reproduced as Annex 1 of the meeting report, whilst Annex 2
provides a list of attendees and the organisations they represent.
Thirty people attended the Forum, representing 16 organisations, an
indication of the widespread interest in the topic of the
day.
Twelve presentations were made, with intervening and
concluding discussion sessions.The report provides a brief summary
of the key outcomes of the day, particularly in relation to ideas
for the development of an indicator or indicators of marine
biodiversity for the England Biodiversity Strategy (EBS) and
Quality of life counts (QOLC) indicator sets.
One obvious gap in the programme related to the potential
relevance of developmental work for implementation of the Water
Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) (WFD) in the UK. This was
researched after the meeting and is outlined in brief in Section
3.2.