BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

How to plan for Nature?

Testing workshopCamp Reinsehlen, 25 – 27 January 2012

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local BiodiversityWhat is the stateof biodiversity?

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Grassland butterfly index

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Living Planet Index

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

What’s under the surface?

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Not all doom and gloom

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Drivers of change: HIPPO

Habitat destruction Invasive Alien Species Pollution (including climate change) Population Overharvesting

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Habitat destruction

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Invasive Alien Species

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Pollution: Arctic Sea Ice

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Overharvesting

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

What can we do about it?

Change behaviour Raise awareness Manage biodiversity Research and monitoring Develop policies Integrate biodiversity into planning

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Early nature awareness

Late: 19th century: bird protection

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

International policy instruments

Global Pan-European Regions in EuropeRamsar European Diploma

of Protected AreasHelsinki Convention

WHC European Landscape Convention

ASCOBANS

CITES Bern Convention ACCOBAMSCMS Eurobats OSPAR ConventionCBD PEBLDS Alpine Convention

Forest Europe Carpathian Convention

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

Trends in nature treaties

From segregation to integration– Species protection, Area/ecosystem protection– From nature to biodiversity– Sustainable development– Ecosystem services– Integration into sectors– From protection to restoration

From up scaling and downscaling

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

EU biodiversity policy

Birds Directive 1979 Habitats Directive 1992 Natura 2000 EU Biodiversity Strategy 2011 Integration into other policies (agriculture, fisheries,

forestry, ...)

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

EU biodiversity targets

1. Full implementation of EU nature legislation to protect biodiversity

2. Better protection for ecosystems, and more use of green infrastructure

3. More sustainable agriculture and forestry 4. Better management of fish stocks 5. Tighter controls on invasive alien species 6. A bigger EU contribution to averting global

biodiversity loss

                                                         

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

From policy to planning