NAPI BIODIVERSITY

The New Biodiversity Research and Innovation Arrangement (NAPI) is composed of the connection between three Arrangements: NAPI Biodiversity: Genetic Resources and Biotechnology; NAPI Biodiversity: Ecosystem Services; and NAPI Biodiversity: RESTORE. All of them aim to promote research and studies aimed at maintaining biodiversity, as well as to achieve results that collaborate with new actions and initiatives for its protection and valorization. We are involved in the NAPI Biodiversity: Ecosystem Services arrangement.

You may not know it, but ecosystem services are part of our daily lives. Researchers have established this term to define the use of natural resources for our benefit. Ecosystem services are divided into several subgroups. Food, water, fuel, fiber, biochemical and medicinal products, and also genetic resources (living beings) are supply services. Oxygen production, nutrient cycling, and soil formation, for example, are support services. Water and climate control, and pollination are regulatory services. And aesthetic, spiritual, and religious values, as well as entertainment and ecotourism, are cultural services. All of these goods and products are responsible for providing us with quality of life and are also responsible for maintaining economic activities and generating financial flows. However, all of this wealth that drives human life has been severely degraded by habitat destruction, pollution, overexploitation, biological invasions, and climate change. We see every day how this has caused great losses in our biodiversity and affected the quality of life of people, animals and plants. This is where the creation of NAPI Biodiversity: Ecosystem Services comes in. The research conducted in the project aims to develop public databases for financial policies. These also aim to ensure environmental health for the maintenance of ecosystem services, the prospecting potential of biodiversity stocks and the socialization of knowledge. Among the products to be generated are: software for monitoring and studies of biodiversity conservation, information for the development of public policies, technical notes for farmers, species lists, cartographic products, biological collections, training of human resources, undergraduate course completion papers, dissertations, theses and scientific articles.