Target 5: Protected Areas - Plants

Protection of 50 Per Cent of the Most Important Areas for Plant Diversity Assured

The most important areas for plant diversity would be identified according to the criteria including endemism, species richness, and/or uniqueness of habitats, including relict ecosystems, also taking into account the provision of ecosystem services. They would be identified primarily at local and national levels. Protection would be assured through effective conservation measures, including protected areas.

Experience from regional initiatives on important plant areas, as well as a similar approach on important bird areas suggests that 50% is a realistic target for 2010. In the longer term the protection of all important plant areas should be assured.

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Stakeholder Consultation on Target 5: Protection of 50 per cent of the most important areas for plant diversity assured.(PDF)

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Plantlife - The Wild Plant Conservation Charity
Plantlife is the only charity working solely to protect Britain’s wild flowers and plants, fungi and lichens, and the habitats in which they are found. There are many great ways for everyone to get involved in plant conservation on their website. Click the link to find out more.

The Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar)
The Convention on Wetlands, signed in Ramsar, Iran, in 1971, is an intergovernmental treaty which provides the framework for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.

Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Biodiversity and biodiversity information are essential to a sustainable future for society. GBIF is making recorded knowledge about biodiversity available to everyone using the Internet. Anyone with records of biodiversity can send data into GBIF to help build an online image of life on earth.

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
This is an international and high profile work programme, launched in 2000, that has recently produced reports highlighting the value of biodiversity to human kind, and how our natural resources are being degraded. This information is used to inform assessment of our major biodiversity conventions.

PlantNetwork
PlantNetwork, is the Britain and Ireland network of botanic gardens, arboreta and other documented plant collections. Acitivites include promoting botanical collections in Britain and Ireland as a national resource for research, conservation and education.

Amazonia
This site, executed by Friends of the Earth - Amazonia Program and supported by the IUCN, makes information on the Amazon region available to the public, with the aim of helping to make clear the structure of public and private agencies, both Brazilian and foreign, that are active in the region.

Neobiota - From Ecology to Conservation
Everyone interested in biological invasions is invited to participate. All professions (ecologists, conservation agencies, and stake-holders), all organisms (pathogens, plants, fungi, animals) and habitats (marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems) will be considered.

Global Trees Campaign
The Global Trees Campaign was established seven years ago to save the world's most extremely threatened trees and the habitats where they grow. Many of these trees are down to just a few individuals surviving. There are ways for everyone to get involved. Learn more on the GTC website.

Ex Situ Plant Conservation: Supporting Species Survival in the Wild (Guerrant et al, 2004)

With a foreword by Peter Raven, this volume aims to win converts to ex situ efforts to protect plant genetic diversity.

Getting Biodiversity Projects to Work: Towards More Effective Conservation and Development (McShane & Wells, 2004)

Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) represent the most popular approach to conserving the world's biodiversity. This book synthesises experience of the wide variety of ICDP initiatives, exploring both practice and theory, to better inform both practicioners and decision makers.

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