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Explanatory Guide on Target 11 of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity - A guide to Target 11 of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020
Climate Change Resilience
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This guide focuses on Target 11 on protected areas of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity. It is part of a series of guides which is meant to help Parties and other stakeholders take action in support of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity during the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity. Establishment of comprehensive, ecologically representative, effectively managed and financially secured protected area networks is a critical strategy not only for biodiversity conservation, but for securing ecosystem goods and services, enabling climate change adaptation and mitigation, and helping countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Recognizing these critical roles of protected areas, the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in February 2004 committed to a comprehensive and specific set of actions known as the Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA). By emphasizing the equitable sharing of costs and benefits, recognizing various governance types and by giving prominence to ecological representation, management effectiveness and multiple benefits, the PoWPA is the most comprehensive global plan of action for effective implementation of protected areas and is considered as a defining framework or “blueprint” for protected areas for the next decades. CBD Parties hailed PoWPA as the most implemented of CBD programmes and a successful initiative. Successive decisions of the CBD Conference of Parties (COP) from its seventh to tenth meetings established the policy environment fostering the implementation of the PoWPA.
Resource requirements for Aichi Targets 11 - Protected Areas : Progress report for the High Level Panel Meeting
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Ervin, Jamison

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Gidda, Sarat

2012
This report estimates the cost of implementing Target 11, including the costs of a) creating new protected areas; b) establishing connectivity corridors; c) effectively managing new and existing protected areas; d) strengthening protected area enabling environments and sustainable finance; and e) conducting key protected area assessments.
Recognising and Supporting Territories and Areas Conserved by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
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Corrigan, Colleen,

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Jonas, Harry

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Kothari, Ashish

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Neumann, Aurélie

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Shrumm, Holly (eds.)

2012
Indigenous peoples and local communities have managed and protected a variety of natural environments and species for a variety of reasons, cultural, spiritual and aesthetic, as well as socio-economic. Today, there are many thousands of indigenous territories and other areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities across the world. Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ conserved territories and areas (ICCAs) are natural and/or modified ecosystems containing significant biodiversity values, ecological services and cultural values, voluntarily conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities, both sedentary and mobile, through customary laws or other effective means. They help maintain genetic diversity, conserve threatened species, and provide corridors for species’ movements. The cultural and economic livelihoods of millions of people depend on them for securing resources such as energy, food, water, fodder, shelter, clothing, and for providing income. ICCAs contribute to global food security by conserving important crop wild relatives, and traditional and threatened landraces. ICCAs play a critical role in ensuring access and respecting rights to customary sustainable use of biodiversity and also provide a fertile classroom for the passing on of inter-generational environmental knowledge, innovations and practices.
National Action for Protected Areas - Key messages for achieving Aichi Biodiversity Target 11
Climate Change Resilience
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Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

2012
Currently some 13% of the world’s terrestrial surface and 4% of marine areas (0-200 nautical miles) under national jurisdiction is protected. These areas serve to safeguard biodiversity and ecosystem goods and services. However, it is well known that they face multiple drivers of change and threats that contribute to their decline and degradation. As our conceptions of the roles and functions of protected areas evolve over the coming decade, we expect that corresponding adjustments in policy will allow protected areas to continue contributing to livelihoods and cultural practices, generating tourism revenues, bolstering local and national economies, mitigating and adapting to climate change, and providing habitat for populations and species.
Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity : Tenth Meeting, Nagoya, Japan, 18-29 October 2010 Agenda item 5.4 - Decision adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity at its Tenth Meeting: X/31. Protected areas
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Convention on Biological Diversity

2010
The Conference of the Parties A. Strategies for strengthening implementation 1. National level 1. Invites Parties to: (a) Enhance the coverage and quality, representativeness and, if appropriate, connectivity of protected areas as a contribution to the development of representative systems of protected areas and coherent ecological networks that include all relevant biomes, ecoregions, or ecosystems;
Case Studies Illustrating the Socio-Economic Benefits of Ecological Networks
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Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity

2010
Over the past 15 years we have seen a paradigm shift in perspectives on biodiversity conservation, particularly in the interrelationship between biodiversity conservation and other land uses. This is reflected in the increasing number of programmes that aim to maintain ecosystem functions in combination with the sustainable use of the landscape.
The Messengers
Climate Change Resilience
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BirdLife International

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National Audubon Society

Birds are far better known than most other animals, and they are powerful messengers for the natural world. They are telling us how climate change poses risks to nature and people worldwide. This synthesis of hundreds of scientific studies illustrates the many ways by which climate change threatens birds and other wildlife. It describes actions underway to help nature adapt, and also shows for the first time how the BirdLife Partnership is implementing nature-based solutions across the world to reduce climate risks and build people’s resilience.
National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans - Powerpoint Presentation
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BirdLife

2016
How BirdLife can set, meet and monitor national biodiversity targets.
Meeting the 2020 Biodiversity Targets/Atteindre les Objectifs 2020 Pour la Biodiveristé
Climate Change Resilience
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BirdLife

The world’s biodiversity is being lost faster than ever. As we destroy it, we lose its capacity to deliver the ecosystem services such as crop pollination, climate regulation and freshwater provision upon which we all depend. Concerted and coordinated action by governments, business and society is urgently needed in order to halt the extinction of species and stem the loss of natural habitats. The world’s governments have made commitments through the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to tackle this issue, and the CBD has proposed 20 targets for 2020 in order to frame and focus action. Birds are better known than any other comparable group of organisms, and we have unparalleled information about which species are the closest to extinction, the threats they face, actions needed and critical sites (Important Bird Areas) that need safeguarding. These data can help to focus and target actions to tackle biodiversity loss. Furthermore, as birds are sensitive to environmental change, popular to watch, and relatively easy to monitor, indicators based on bird data are very useful for tracking progress in addressing the biodiversity crisis. In this booklet, we provide examples for 12 of the CBD targets of how birds can help to focus actions to meet these targets, and how data from birds can help to monitor success.
Marine and coastal biodiversity in the tropical island Pacific region Volume 1.
Island and Ocean Ecosystems

Eldredge, Lucius G ... [et al.]

1999
Proceedings of two workshops held at the East-West Center, Honolulu, in November 1994 - Volume 1

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