{"id":10740,"date":"2019-09-20T16:08:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T12:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/map.nationalgeographic.ge\/?page_id=10740"},"modified":"2020-03-24T19:18:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T15:18:11","slug":"about-project-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/map.nationalgeographic.ge\/en\/about-project-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with the National Geographic Magazine-Georgia and <a href=\"http:\/\/museum.ge\/\">the Georgian National Museum<\/a> supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silknet.com\/\">Silknet<\/a>, the Map of Biodiversity in the South Caucasus and its website were recently created. In the first stage, we have incorporated 120 illustrations (11 fishes, 16 birds, 30 plants, 19 insects, 17 mammals, 15 reptiles, 6 amphibians, 2 mollusks and 4 fossils) and basic biodiversity information on species found in the South Caucasus (mostly Georgia) on the electronic version of the map. Each description, prepared by a field specialist, provides key information about each species. On the printed map there are 98 species represented, with their Latin, Georgian and English names and their conservation status according to IUCN.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, both electronic and printed maps will be developed with additional species and habitats in neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the Georgian National Museum have worked with species specialists from Ilia State University, with oversight by the National Geographic team of specialists who supervised the illustrators to create high-quality images for each species represented on the maps.<\/p>\n<p>The large scale (3m.X1.5m) printed version of the map is at a permanent display of the Caucasus Biodiversity Exhibition of the S. Janashia Museum of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Creation of the first-ever illustrated Map of Biodiversity in the South Caucasus was entirely supported by the GIZ \u201cIntegrated Biodiversity Management, South Caucasus\u201d Project.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Team:<\/p>\n<p>Project Leader and Editor-in-Chief \u2013 Natia Khuluzauri (National Geographic Magazine &#8211; Georgia)<br \/>\nLeader of the Scientific Team \u2013 Rusudan Chagelishvili (Georgian National Museum)<br \/>\nArt Editor and Designer \u2013 Rusudan Kipiani (National Geographic Magazine &#8211; Georgia)<\/p>\n<p>Species specialists:<\/p>\n<p>Plants \u2013 Maka Bokeria (Georgian National Museum)<br \/>\nMollusks \u2013 Levan Mumladze (Georgian National Museum)<br \/>\nButterflies \u2013 Eter Didmanidze (Georgian National Museum)<br \/>\nInsects \u2013 Izabella Skhirtladze (Georgian National Museum)<br \/>\nFishes \u2013 Nargiza Ninua (Georgian National Museum)<br \/>\nAmphibians and Reptiles \u2013 Davit Tarkhnishvili (Ilia State University)<br \/>\nBirds \u2013 Nika Paposhvili (Ilia State University)<br \/>\nMammals \u2013 Vera Pkhakadze (Georgian National Museum)<br \/>\nFossils \u2013 Rusudan Chagelishvili (Georgian National Museum)<br \/>\nScientific consultant \u2013 Valeri Petrov (Georgian National Museum)<\/p>\n<p>Editorial team:<\/p>\n<p>Editor of the Georgian version \u2013 Ekaterine Gamkrelidze (National Geographic Magazine &#8211; Georgia)<br \/>\nProof read of the Georgian version \u2013 Manana Sanadiradze (National Geographic Magazine &#8211; Georgia)<br \/>\nTranslator \u2013 Maya Nikolaishvili<br \/>\nEditor of the English Version \u2013 Mary Ellen Chatwin<\/p>\n<p>Art team:<\/p>\n<p>Illustrations \u2013 Levan Kvaratskhelia and David Drone<br \/>\nDesigner of exhibition display case and touchscreen interfaces \u2013 David Tsvariani (Georgian National Museum)<br \/>\nCartography of printed version \u2013 Giorgi Partskhaladze (Georgian National Museum)<\/p>\n<p>Website Manager \u2013 Ketevan Eliava (National Geographic Magazine &#8211; Georgia)<br \/>\nProject Manager \u2013 Gulo Svanidze (National Geographic Magazine &#8211; Georgia)<br \/>\nProject Assistants \u2013 Tamta Mikadze and Mariam Kvirikadze (National Geographic Magazine &#8211; Georgia)<\/p>\n<p>Website is developed by <a class=\"wi-madeBy\" href=\"https:\/\/webintelligence.de\/\">webintelligence<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In collaboration with the National Geographic Magazine-Georgia and the Georgian National Museum supported by Silknet, the Map of Biodiversity in the South Caucasus and its website were recently created. In the first stage, we have incorporated 120 illustrations (11 fishes, 16 birds, 30 plants, 19 insects, 17 mammals, 15 reptiles, 6 amphibians, 2 mollusks and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/map.nationalgeographic.ge\/en\/about-project-2\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>About Project - map<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/map.nationalgeographic.ge\/about-project-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About Project - map\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In collaboration with the National Geographic Magazine-Georgia and the Georgian National Museum supported by Silknet, the Map of Biodiversity in the South Caucasus and its website were recently created. 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