The first working session of the GLOBIO project member-countries representatives was held on 10-14 January, 2006 in Quito (Ecuador). The EEBIO Project Manager, Doctor of Biology, Vasyl Prydatko (ULRMC) participated in the session. He demonstrated ULRMC's developments.

During August, 2005 - March, 2006, ULRMC under the contract with the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP) will implement the project "Developing a Species Based Model for Biodiversity Assessment in "Russian Speaking" Countries of the Pan-European Region". The expected model shall operate in the context of the GLOBIO project, and the project will have the conventional title "EEBIO" (or "The Eastern European GLOBIO v 1.0"). During this work, the ULRMC will develop a package of electronic maps on habitats of some hundreds of animal and plant species, both rare and ordinary ones, which have an indicative meaning for studying a negative impact on biodiversity (climate changes, habitats fragmentation etc.), a part of which will be based on up-to-date remote sensing data, as well as mapping materials, in particular, of the 30s and 70s, which have never been digitalized, but are still topical today. This will allow reconstructing of areals of many species and obtaining of unique comparative material. It has been already determined that in the 80-s of the last century biologists' thoughts on areals of numerous predatory mammals were rather general and did not include substantial mosaicism of habitats. By the example of the RS-GIS-index, the ULRMC has already managed to prove that the amplitude of area changes for many species habitats around big cities for the last decade may reach ±27%. The ULRMC has developed and tested examples of possible representation of particular modeling results for species areals using also the product Google Earth, which is becoming more and more popular.