Data on Indicators used in Southeast Asian nations' 4th and 5th National Reports to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Xuemei Han; Bruce E Young; Michael J Gill; Healy Hamilton; Sheila G Vergara

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2020.105705

Data on Indicators used in Southeast Asian nations' 4th and 5th National Reports to the Convention on Biological Diversity

Data Brief. 2020 May 15:31:105705. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.105705. eCollection 2020 Aug.

Authors

Xuemei Han^{1

2}, Bruce E Young¹, Michael J Gill¹, Healy Hamilton¹, Sheila G Vergara³

Affiliations

¹ NatureServe, 2550 South Clark Street, Suite 930, Arlington, VA 22202, USA.
² Fairfax County Department of Management and Budget, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 561, Fairfax, VA 22035.
³ ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, Domingo M. Lantican Avenue, Los Baños, Laguna 4031, Philippines.

Abstract

The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled "Progress on National Biodiversity Indicator Reporting and Prospects for Filling Indicator Gaps in Southeast Asia " (Han et al., 2020). We examined quantifiable information about biodiversity indicators from the most recent two national reports (i.e., 4th in 2010 and 5th in 2015) to the United Nation's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) by the 10-member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. This article presents the number of indicators, their level of development, and detailed lists of indicators for each country, and demonstrates general improvement in indicator use by the highest level of government reporting about implementation of the CBD at the national scale.

Keywords: ASEAN; Biodiversity Indicators; Convention on Biological Diversity; Indicator Use; National Reports.