28 March 2025

Knowledge for biodiversity in Asia – setting a roadmap for the future

Knowledge Management for Biodiversity (KM4B) Asia regional workshop

ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity

How can we harness knowledge more effectively to drive nature conservation in Asia? What type of networks, platforms and tools do we need to exchange with each other? How do we build on the knowledge and wisdom of communities that have been protecting nature at the local level for millennia? In which formats do we package and share what we are learning? 

These are some of the questions which participants of the recent Knowledge Management for Biodiversity (KM4B) Asia regional workshop discussed. The workshop, organized in Bangkok, Thailand by the Secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in collaboration with the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, brought together participants from over 20 countries across the continent, representing governments, civil society, as well as. regional and international organizations. 

Seoraksan National Park, South Korea

Korea National Parks Service (KNPS)

Knowledge management underpins the success of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, by enabling the collection, organization, sharing, and application of biodiversity knowledge to support effective planning, policy development, implementation, monitoring and reporting. The regional workshops of the KM4B initiative help enhance countries’ knowledge management capacities by identifying common challenges, best practices and developing roadmaps. The workshop produced the “Knowledge Agenda for Biodiversity in Asian countries” outlining key steps across 10 priority areas, ranging from knowledge partnerships to infrastructures, which would support implementation of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs) and the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).     

The PANORAMA partnership worked closely with the CBD Secretariat, providing advice on the design of the workshops and presenting. PANORAMA as an established tool that can supports knowledge capture, exchange, analysis and dissemination. PANORAMA was introduced as a platform that, offers a neutral and inclusive space that elevates local practitioners’ knowledge to, inform national and global policy processes. By providing visibility to country-led biodiversity solutions, PANORAMA facilitates peer-to-peer learning through both online and offline formats. Its focus on capturing and sharing practitioners’ reflected insights complements data and information focused platforms and initiatives – an aspect positively highlighted by workshop participants.

PANORAMA Coordinators Helga Mahler (GIZ) and Marie Fischborn (IUCN) at the KM4B Asia regional workshop

ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity

PANORAMA partners will continue to support countries in Asia and beyond to anchor knowledge management in NBSAPs and support knowledge exchange for their implementation. Collaboration with the CBD Secretariat- formalized through a memorandum of understanding (MoU) - will also continue including to implement tagging of Solutions with relevant GBF targets, the interlinking of the PANORAMA platform with CBD-managed digital systems, and support on shaping the future of the KM4B initiative.

Learn more: 

PANORAMA in the context of the Global Biodiversity Framework 

KM4B initiative 