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October 16, 2025

Nature Data Unlocked: Open innovation to transform biodiversity data products

OpenNature Initiative: It’s time for accessible, actionable nature data.

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May 22, 2025

Bridging biodiversity gaps: OpenNature, one year later.

Democratizing access to biodiversity knowledge through open data products and tools has clear societal benefits. However, a primary cause of the widespread use of restrictive licenses, commercial paywalls or private repositories, is the chronic underfunding of nature data collection and infrastructure.

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August 22, 2024

OpenNature Initiative: It’s time for accessible, actionable nature data.

On 22nd May, coinciding with UN Biodiversity Day themed “Be part of the change,” the OpenNature initiative gathered for the first time to explore how to catalyze a shift in the conservation community towards the rapid expansion of open biodiversity data.

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May 16, 2024

How unlocking nature data can fast-track the sustainable transition: an interview with Scientist Mike Harfoot.

By making nature data available to everyone, you raise the baseline of all the data. The fact that anybody can take it, build on it, improve it, enhance it, or combine it with other data sets accelerates developments across the sector.

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