We gratefully acknowledge the expertise and time of many colleagues from policy, practice, and research who have participated in EuropaBON workshops and contributed their insights and knowledge through interviews and surveys. They include experts from the European Commission and ministries of EU and non-EU Member States as well as from non-governmental organisations, natural history societies, museums and research institutes. Their insights and exper- tise form the basis for this report. The organisations that participated in the EuropaBON expert meeting and survey are listed below. We are also grateful to the many reviewers who provided valuable feedback and comments on the first draft of this document. If you are interested in learning more about the review process or how your comments were addressed, please contact info@europabon.org.

Expert meeting participating organisations and agencies:
Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning, Republic of North Macedonia; Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), Serbia; Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, Croatia; National Museum of Natural Sciences, Spain; Minis- try for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Spain; Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, BfN, Germa- ny; Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Finland; Ministry of the Environment, Finland; Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic; Ministry of Environment Spatial Planning and Infrastructure, Kosovo; Estonian Environment Agency, Estonia; Environment Protection Agency, Lithuania; Agency for Nature and Environment Protec- tion, Montenegro; Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests, Portugal; Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO), Portugal; Executive Environment Agency (ExEA), Bulgaria; National Parks & Wildlife Service, Ireland; Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Belgium; Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Italy; Danish Environmental Protection Agency, Denmark; Nature Conservation Agency, Latvia; European Bio- diversity Partnership: Biodiversa+; Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD); Joint Research Centre (JRC); Directorate-General Environment (DG ENV); Directorate-General Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI); European Environment Agency (EEA); Directorate-General Climate Action (DG CLIMA); and the European Research Exe- cutive Agency (REA).

Survey participating organisations and agencies:

Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning, Republic of North Macedonia; Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), Serbia; Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, Croatia; Nature Conservation Agency CZ, Czech Republic; National Museum of Natural Sciences, Spain; Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Spain; Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, BfN, Germany; Ministry of the Environment, Finland; Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic; Ministry of Environment Spatial Planning and Infrastructure, Kosovo; Estonian Environment Agency, Estonia; Environment Protection Agency, Lithuania; Agency for Nature and Environ- ment Protection, Montenegro; Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests, Portugal; Executive Environment Agency (ExEA), Bulgaria; National Parks & Wildlife Service, Ireland; Ministry of Climate and Environment, Poland; Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Italy; Danish Environmental Protection Agency, Denmark; Nature Conservation Agency, Latvia; Ministry of Agriculture, Hungary; PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, the Netherlands; Slovak Environment Agency (SEA), Slovak Republic; Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Nature Conservation (ZRSVN), Slovenia; Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT, Switzerland; European Biodiversity Partnership: Biodiversa+; Joint Research Centre (JRC); Directorate-General Agriculture and Rural Development (DG AGRI); and the European Environment Agency (EEA).

EuropaBON is supported by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme through the grant to the budget of the EuropaBON Project (https://europabon.org/) (EU H2020 research and innovation programme grant ag- reement No. 101003553).
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG-FZT 118, 202548816).