OBIS and UNESCO Marine World Heritage Sites
OBIS helping to assess biodiversity at UNESCO Marine World Heritage sites OBIS partnered with UNESCO’s Marine World Heritage sites in a global project to study biodiversity. A two-year project using environmental DNA (eDNA) to study biodiversity across selected marine World Heritage sites by local citizens guided by expert support, to monitor fish as well as species red-listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) was launched on the 18 th of October 2021.