This interactive e-book is to provide a quick introduction to how Technology and Innovation are being applied to preserve biodiversity and scale-up conservation efforts.

An interactive e-book is more than a pdf or static electronic document. This e-book includes text and a wide range of interactive elements (e.g., hyperlinks, photo galleries, video galleries, interactive graphs, interactive maps, interactive data/knowledge filters, etc.) drawn from multiple online resources.

The e-book contains text and interactive graphics that enhance the user’s knowledge and learning experience. Check out the interactive elements:

Multi-Media: Picture and video galleries, slides, hyperlinks and many more.

Interactive maps: To move around the map click anywhere and drag around. To zoom in or out of the map: Press Ctrl + or Ctrl -. Click anywhere to get details about a place.

Interactive graphics: place the mouse to hover over some graphs, for more pop-up information.

Interactive data and knowledge portals: These annexes allow the reader to have access to further knowledge resources and information for deep dives.

The e-book works on any device that has an internet connection (tablet, phone, laptop, touchscreens). The e-book is accessible on all browsers, although Chrome on desktops is recommended for the best result.

The platform and programming provide a user interface with a responsive design layout that is adjusted automatically to the device hardware and user behavior.

A key feature of the e-book is, it draws all the information from online services hosted by external services in the public domain, which makes the e-book a very “practical” tool that should not require a powerful machine or high-speed internet connections and allows for “real-time” data (e.g. those from earth observation or shared in-situ sensors) to also be displayed along with other online resources.

An interactive knowledge explorer is provided at the end of the e-book to help you to access digital resources that can be filtered in several different ways (e.g., by technology type, region, environmental challenge, or resource type).

This innovative and interactive resource allows easy updating of the contents on an iterative basis as the contents are revised and modified based on continued stakeholder inputs and updates.

This e-book contains many examples of specific technologies and initiatives to support environmental improvement related to biodiversity conservation efforts. This is not intended to be in any way an endorsement of these technologies but are intended to illustrate this fast-moving world of new technologies being leveraged to solve what used to be considered intractable environmental challenges that had to be traded-off against development. The world has moved on and these types of technologies are becoming more common everywhere globally and there is a need to enable everyone to learn from each other.

Please do not try to print this e-book and add to the environmental woes. The point of this e-book is to allow for quick interactive access to a range of curated multi-media resources, links, and interactive graphics that could take days to fully explore and read. However, this gives you a modern way to access these on any device, quickly understand the main points and do deeper dives in areas where you have more interest to learn more.