We are pleased to announce that the IAPT has joined the World Flora Online Consortium (WFO, worldfloraonline.org). The WFO is an important and transformative project. The work of taxonomists is vital to address the global challenges of climate change and the ongoing unprecedented loss of biodiversity. As taxonomists our job is to identify, name, and understand the organisms around us, and the products of our work have never been more important. The WFO is a freely available w

The Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF) has launched a call for applications for the CETAF Excellence in Scientific Collections-based Research (E-SCoRe) Award 2021, the second edition of its initiative to reward early-career researchers who base their research on natural science collections within the fields of taxonomy, biodiversity and geodiversity science. See the CETAF website for details on eligibility criteria and application procedures: https://cetaf.