Ibsar’s objectives and Strategic Plan for the coming five year are aligned with those set by the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD), 2011-2020. Ibsar aims to translate its Strategic Plan and manifest its mission and vision through its current active programs and initiatives, each operating on three levels: Education, Research, and Community Outreach.
For the next five years, Ibsar’s goals are as follows:
In line with the Strategic Plan on Biodiversity set by the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity, Ibsar strategic goals for the next 5 years are as follows:
3.1 Strategic Goal A
Address the underlying causes of biodiversity loss by mainstreaming biodiversity across municipalities
Target 1: Municipalities are aware of the values of biodiversity and the steps they can take to
conserve and use it sustainably.
Target 2: Biodiversity values have been integrated into the municipalities’ development strategies
and planning processes.
Target 3: Incentives harmful to biodiversity are eliminated, phased out, or reformed in order
to minimize or avoid negative impacts. In addition, positive incentives for the conservation and
sustainable use of biodiversity are developed and applied, consistent and in harmony with the
Convention and other relevant international obligations, taking into account local socio-economic
conditions.
Target 4: Steps to achieve plans for sustainable production and consumption will be taken while
impacts of use of natural resources well within safe ecological limits are promoted.
3.2 Strategic Goal B
Reduce the direct pressures on biodiversity
Target 5: Reforestation efforts have become an integral part of the public work through the
municipalities. Hence, the degradation and fragmentation of existing forests have become
significantly reduced.
Target 6: Pollution in selected areas is brought back to levels that are not detrimental to the
ecosystem’s function and biodiversity.
Target 7: Invasive alien species and pathways are identified and prioritized, priority species
are controlled or eradicated, and measures are in place to manage pathways to prevent their
introduction and establishment.
3.3 Strategic Goal C
Improve the status of biodiversity by safeguarding species and genetic diversity
Target 8: The extinction of known threatened species has been prevented and their conservation
status, particularly of those most in decline, has been improved and sustained.
Target 9: The diversity of plants is maintained and strategies (cultivation protocols) have been
developed and implemented for safeguarding their genetic diversity.
3.4 Strategic Goal D
Enhance the benefits to all from biodiversity and ecosystem services
Target 10: Ecosystems that provide essential services, including services that contribute to health, livelihoods, and wellbeing, are restored and safeguarded, taking into account the needs of women as well as indigenous and local communities.
3.5 Strategic Goal E
Enhance implementation through participatory planning, knowledge management, and capacity building
Target 11: The traditional knowledge, innovations, and practices of indigenous and local communities relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, and their customary use of biological resources, are respected.
Target 12: Knowledge, the science base and technologies relating to biodiversity, its values, functioning, status and trends, as well as the consequences of its loss, are improved, widely shared, transferred, and applied.
3.6 Strategic Goal F
Enhance education, outreach, and communication
Target 13: Enhance educational materials and programs to raise awareness in students at all levels.
Target 14: Communicate well to the public and have a message that can be understood beyond
the biodiversity community. Implementation is only possible if there is a large buy-in from a broad
base – Ibsar “friends” need to be identified.
Target 15: Improve cooperation with media sector to involve newspapers, televisions, and social
media.
3.7 Strategic Goal G
Enhance biodiversity monitoring
Target 16: Establish an adequate monitoring framework
Target 17: Quantify biodiversity change and link monitoring activities to national, regional, and
global biodiversity observation networks.