Company Information

The Center for Biodiversity (CBM) is a 'virtual' center without walls. The infrastructure is essentially electronic with the headquarters located in Yungaburra, tropical North Queensland. It has a sole director and two joint shareholders. It is essentially a non profit company. Income is derived from consultancies with contracts derived from mainly international agencies. The Center has access to a pool of international scientists who sub-contract with the company as research associates.

International Expertise

CBM provides comprehensive advice to clients in environmental management, with a strong focus on biodiversity assessment and monitoring. The team has experience worldwide especially in developing countries, both in establishing regional frameworks for biodiversity research, implementing rapid baseline surveys and in technology transfer.

Expertise is available to capture biophysical and socioeconomic information that is fundamental to integrated natural resource management. This information can be used directly by managers and planners to forecast impacts of specific resource use on biodiversity and productivity and to develop sustainable options for adaptive management.

CBM Team:

'Center for Biodiversity Management survey team. Sumatra, Indonesia'


Director Andy Gillison:
Executive Profile
International Team:
Associates

Global biodiversity database

CBM has access to a unique, comprehensive, global biodiversity database and uses state-of-the-art, generic methodology in data collection and analysis and in the construction of computer-based models of resource performance and thematic mapping.

Educational capacity enhancement

As part of its mission CBM also encourages and supports educational programmes to promote understanding and implementation of natural resource management. It has close ties with many international research organizations and universities . CBM conducts international training workshops in biodiversity survey techniques. Highly successful training programs have been conducted in humid tropical West Africa (Cameroon), India, Indomalasia (Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam) and Latin America (Brazil, Peru). A percentage of CBM's income is set aside to support ongoing research into improving methods of biodiversity assessment.

Cutting edge research

CBM maintains a high international profile on cutting edge research is biodiversity assessment and management and contributes to international workshops and meetings.

Collaborative Publishing

The company seeks to publish its joint research findings in international journals and to support publication of training aids and multilingual field and laboratory manuals for field personnel and managers concerned with Biodiversity assessment and spatial modelling.

'Filipino training participants Biodoversity survey, Los Baños, Philippines'



' VegClass Training session, Pucallpa, Peru'

' Biodiversity survey group in the Alcalinas Canama , Mato Grosso Western Amazon basin Brazil'