The Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management initiated a project to control biodiversity changes in Austria. An indicator set was proposed to enable biodiversity trends to be monitored. The indicator set was developed to support international commitments and reporting obligations (e.g. CBD), as well as other international activities. The project builds upon synergies with FFH monitoring and other evaluation procedures.

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft)

The Centre of Environmental Research and Nature Conservation (Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna) and Umweltbüro Klagenfurt, as project leader and project manager respectively were assigned the task of developing a concept for biodiversity monitoring in Austria.  The Federal Environment Agency, the Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW) and the consulting office stadtland completed the MOBI-e (MOBI-development) project team. An advisory board of interdisciplinary experts was also consulted alongside the MOBI-team to help with indicator selection.

Indicator reports are regularly published; these are available from the website and are also circulated to interested people.

Further development of the indicators to improve data availability and quality. The aim is to implement a larger number of indicators in the future.

Indikatoren-Bericht zur Biodiversität in Österreich, September 2010

M O B I – e: Entwicklung eines Konzeptes für ein Biodiversitäts-Monitoring in Österreich, June 2006

M O B I – e: Entwicklung eines Konzeptes für ein Biodiversitäts-Monitoring in Österreich - Anhang, April 2006