BUILDING RESILIENCE IN HIGH BIODIVERSITY AREAS FOR NATURE AND PEOPLE
No more loss of critical areas for biodiversity !
The project aims at fostering the resilience of effective models of conservation and sustainable management implemented in high biodiversity areas. The scope is global and applies to both marine and terrestrial systems. Delivery is through the creation, facilitation and supporting of a Community of Practice gathering stewards of efficiently managed high biodiversity areas. By avoiding additional destruction of core biodiversity areas, the project contributes to support the 30X30 target of the Global Biodiversity Framework, including through promoting Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECM). This project is implemented for three years in partnership with André Hoffmann.
Three strategic axes
Convening stewards of resilience
Developing and facilitating a Community of Practice constituted of stewards of effectively managed high biodiversity areas to boost resilience in these areas through increased visibility, exchange of know-how, and upscaling of successful management models.
Understanding resilience
Understanding the factors underpinning the resilience of management models, providing a practical index for measuring the resilience of models locally, and monitoring the variation in model resilience globally.
Scaling up resilience
Retrofitting resilience into existing successful initiatives of conservation and sustainable development in biodiverse areas by diagnosing gaps of resilience and promoting the development of solutions.
The project’s added value
1-Accelerating the emergence of solutions by contrasting know-hows
Original to this proposal is the intention to bring around the table all types of stakeholders who successfully manage areas of high biodiversity, as their primary or secondary purpose. These managers include local and indigenous communities, civil society organizations, governmental agencies, protected area managers, private landowners, and private entrepreneurs (such as farmers, fishers, foresters or secondary sector companies).
2- Providing concrete and effective tools for assessing and monitoring the resilience of management models
Designing a practical tool to assess resilience will make possible to carry out diagnoses of management models and identify entry points for activities aiming at boosting their resilience. Providing a barometer for the resilience of management models in high biodiversity areas will bring a much needed common reference to act timely for ensuring the conservation of core biodiversity areas worldwide.
3- Advising measures to prevent degradation risks in effectively managed areas
The dimension of anticipation by which preventive measures will be advised to avoid the potential degradation of well managed high biodiversity areas that are not yet directly threatened will allow to move the cursor of conservation interventions towards more proactivity.
