Biodiversity strategy and plan of action

Biodiversity strategy and plan of action

The National Biodiversity Policy is to be developed in a Plan of Action in which priorities and objectives are set for the short, medium and long term. The Institute cooperated, with the Ministry of the Environment, in the pursuit of financial resources by the GEF for the creation of this plan. The Institute will deal with the technical stage and has designated nine technical groups for this purpose, which are coordinated by experts in different topics. The selected topic areas and the coordinators are shown in table 1. After the technical stage, which will end in mid 1998, the Ministry of the Environment will seek an agreement on the Plan of Action policy.
Table 1 - Groups working on a proposal for the technical structure of the Biodiversity Plan of Action

Name of the group

1. Consolidate the National System of Protected Areas

2. Reduce processes damaging to biodiversity

3. Restoration of ecosystems and threatened species

4. Characterization of biodiversity elements

5. Recuperation and Divulging of Traditional knowledge

6. Promotion of sustainable management systems

7. Promotion of conservation ex-situ and biotechnology

8. Valuation and development of the economic potential of biodiversity

9. Design of equitable distribution mechanisms of benefits for the use of biodiversity

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