Geo-location of sites with biodiversity funding

Most information had to be encoded and georeferenced manually. Projects often had limited information about the subject matter and the flagging of a project as one addressing biodiversity conservation was sometimes subjective. Georeferences were also missing and have been encoded manually. Projects that did not specify locations were georeferenced to the location of the country’s capital city, assuming that the projects are implemented at a country level. Similarly, projects spread over multiple locations and countries had to be artificially distributed in terms of budget across these locations in an arbitrary way. The users will however find some information in eConservation about the level of precision we attributed to the geolocation assigned to each project. All these steps are obviously prone to errors and can lead to wrong information. For more information, refer to https://econservation.jrc.ec.europa.eu/methodology