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
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