BD SKILLS training workshop 06 Lecture 2 Ben

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BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
How to plan for Nature?
Testing workshop
Camp Reinsehlen, 25 – 27 January 2012
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
What is the state
of biodiversity?
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
Grassland butterfly index
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
Living Planet Index
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
What’s under the surface?
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
Not all doom and gloom
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
Drivers of change: HIPPO
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Habitat destruction
Invasive Alien Species
Pollution (including climate change)
Population
Overharvesting
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
Habitat destruction
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
Invasive Alien
Species
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
Pollution: Arctic Sea Ice
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
Overharvesting
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
What can we do about it?
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Change behaviour
Raise awareness
Manage biodiversity
Research and monitoring
Develop policies
Integrate biodiversity into planning
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
Early nature awareness
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Late: 19th century: bird protection
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
International policy instruments
Global
Pan-European
Regions in Europe
Ramsar
European Diploma
of Protected Areas
Helsinki Convention
WHC
European Landscape ASCOBANS
Convention
CITES
Bern Convention
ACCOBAMS
CMS
Eurobats
OSPAR Convention
CBD
PEBLDS
Alpine Convention
Forest Europe
Carpathian
Convention
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
Trends in nature treaties
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From segregation to integration
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Species protection, Area/ecosystem protection
From nature to biodiversity
Sustainable development
Ecosystem services
Integration into sectors
From protection to restoration
From up scaling and downscaling
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
EU biodiversity policy
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Birds Directive 1979
Habitats Directive 1992
Natura 2000
EU Biodiversity Strategy 2011
Integration into other policies (agriculture, fisheries,
forestry, ...)
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
EU biodiversity targets
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Full implementation of EU nature legislation to
protect biodiversity
Better protection for ecosystems, and more use of
green infrastructure
More sustainable agriculture and forestry
Better management of fish stocks
Tighter controls on invasive alien species
A bigger EU contribution to averting global
biodiversity loss
BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity
From policy to planning
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