29.10.2025
We are pleased to announce that PhD researcher Sergio Bolívar-Santamaría from the SusLAND group of the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) has been awarded the "Best Poster" prize at the international Living Data Conference: Unified information driving transformation.
The conference was held in Bogotá, Colombia, from October 21-24, 2025.
His winning poster, titled “The role of protected areas in conserving lowland grassland and savannah ecosystems in Latin America,” was selected for its scientific excellence, outstanding visual communication, and its significant relevance to the fields of open data and collaborative science. Sergio Bolívar-Santamaría research underscores the need for data-driven science to directly support conservation efforts for the vital grassland and savannah ecosystems of Latin America.
This research is a key component of the SULU project “Safeguarding overlooked ecosystems: protect, manage and restore grasslands and savannahs in Argentina, Colombia and Paraguay”, funded by the Internationale Klimaschutzinitiative (IKI), where ZALF leads the scientific component (Output 5). The project is a collaborative consortium with WWF Argentina, WWF Colombia, Vida Silvestre Argentina, and WWF Germany.
About the Living Data Conference
The Living Data Conference 2025 (hosted by Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute in Bogotá) brings together the global biodiversity information community to advance the development of standards and tools for sharing and using biodiversity data to address critical environmental challenges.
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