保护生物多样性——推动

保护生物多样性——推动 22-12-2006

保护生物多样性——推动国际鸟盟成员能力建设

Initial training will centre on staff from six BirdLife Partner organisations, each from a different region of the world. These individuals will in turn train staff within their organisations and from other national NGOs within their region.

These countries are rich in biodiversity. Compared to the 278 native bird species in the UK, Bolivia has 1,439, Nepal 826, Russia 677, and Botswana 528. They have high numbers of threatened or near threatened birds: 76 in Bolivia, 72 in Russia, 50 in Nepal, compared with 7 in the UK. And they are poor in resources, with less than $10,000 GDP per capita, compared to $29,600 in the UK.

The project will work on several levels; improving the capacity and confidence of national NGOs to undertake applied science and transfer these results to policy processes in support of their Governments. This will lead to more effective national implementation of the CBD; leading ultimately to an improvement in the status and sustainable use of host country biological diversity.

“This project has been designed with impact and legacy very much in mind,” said Alison Stattersfield, Head of Science at BirdLife International. “For example, we have selected partners which we believe have great potential to further develop their scientific capacity and improve conservation outcomes as a result. We will develop a training programme which will both build and transfer skills over three years, and a set of activities which will become embedded into on-going programmes once the Darwin funding comes to an end.”

2. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), agreed upon at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, entered into force in 1993. It is a global treaty with three objectives: the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of biological diversity, and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the use of genetic resources. The Convention has been ratified by 187 countries.

4. National liaison frameworks, such as committees with both NGO and Government participation, are being set up by BirdLife Partners to coordinate conservation planning, action and monitoring, and ensure that decisions are informed by the best available data.

6. The ‘Analysis Guide’ (one of the key outputs) will ensure that scientific analyses undertaken by the demonstration projects can be repeated as new data become available, thereby enabling monitoring and updating of scientific reports. It will also allow the project to be replicated by other organisations, with each of the participating organisations acting as a regional ‘hub’ for training staff at other NGOs.

8. Further details and quotes from the BirdLife Partners involved in this project can be found within the following newstory: News: Convention on Biological Diversity: BirdLife Partners given a boost