Sir
Your otherwise interesting News report (Nature 410, 290; 2001) on the new Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF — see http://www.gbif.org) contains some errors. GBIF, which came into being on 1 March this year, was not launched in Brussels. The first meeting of the GBIF governing board took place on 9–11 March in Montreal, Canada. Martin Sharman and Carlos Martinez-Riera are scientific officers at the European Commission; they do not work for GBIF.
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Häuser, C. New information on the biodiversity facility. Nature 410, 865 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35073690
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