1. Improve knowledge on Ireland’s biodiversity: Serve as the national centre for acquiring, collating, managing, validating and making available data on Ireland’s biodiversity, and track how biodiversity is changing over time.
2.Assist better evidence-based actions for biodiversity conservation and restoration: Promote the use of genetic, species and habitat data and biodiversity informatics in partnership with other organisations, to better inform best practice, policy and decision-making through innovative data analysis, interpretation and reporting.
3.Promote the use of biodiversity data for science and decision-making: Support biodiversity data and informatics needs at the national, EU and international levels, particularly for research, policy development and decision making.
4.Strengthen the citizen science and research network: Build capacity within the citizen science network to foster enjoyment, engagement with and appreciation of local biodiversity, promote life-long learning, and improve the quantity and quality of citizen science generated data on Ireland’s biodiversity.
5.Communicate biodiversity: Communicate the value of Ireland’s biological diversity and support positive evidence-based conservation and land-use actions across Irish society.
6.Build an innovative, agile and accountable National Biodiversity Data Centre to enable it to respond to emerging public policy needs and to strengthen the state’s ability to address the biodiversity crisis.