The Global Biodiversity Observing System (GBiOS) will combine technology, data, and knowledge from around the world to provide data to monitor biodiversity change and target action.

The Aichi Biodiversity Targets of the United Nations’ Strategic Plan for Biodiversity set ambitious goals for protecting biodiversity. The availability of biodiversity data is a key requirement to address biodiversity loss. Key gaps, however, remain in our knowledge of biodiversity. These are mostly a result of barriers preventing existing data from being discoverable, accessible and digestible. In this paper, what BONs can do to address these barriers is described