International commitment to protect at least 30% of the planet's land and seas by 2030, contained in the Global Biodiversity Framework.

Italian nature technology company that started out monitoring beehives and is now active in measuring biodiversity with sensors, satellites and artificial intelligence. It develops the XNatura® platform.

Number of individuals of a species present in an area. Together with species richness, it describes the state of a biological community.

Ecosystem modified and managed by humans for agricultural production, in which crops, wild species and management practices coexist.

Condition of the air assessed on the basis of the concentration of pollutants such as particulate matter, ozone and nitrogen dioxide, compared with the limits set for health.

Fraction of solar radiation reflected by a surface. Snow and light-coloured roofs have a high albedo and stay cooler, while asphalt and dark surfaces have a low albedo and heat up.

Three scales of biodiversity: alpha is the diversity within a single site, beta measures how much species change from one site to another, and gamma is the overall diversity of a region.

Class of vertebrates, such as frogs, toads and salamanders, that spend part of their life in water and part on land. They are highly sensitive to pollution and to the loss of wetlands.

Application Programming Interface: an interface that allows two programs to exchange data. With APIs an environmental platform can feed dashboards, reports and third-party applications.

Superfamily of hymenopteran insects that includes all bees, social and solitary: around 2,000 species are counted in Europe.

The largest group in the animal kingdom, which includes insects, spiders, crustaceans and millipedes. They have an external skeleton and jointed legs.

Set of techniques that enable a computer system to perform tasks typical of human intelligence, such as recognising images and sounds. In ecology it is used to identify species and interpret large volumes of data.

All the bird species living in an area. Monitoring it is one of the most widely used indicators for assessing the state of ecosystems.

Structure with cavities of different sizes, such as canes, drilled wood or bricks, that offers nesting sites to solitary bees and other beneficial insects.

Man-made container that houses a bee colony and allows the beekeeper to inspect it and harvest the honey.