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Tourism as a driver for change
The Public Use and Recreation Program (PURP) addresses the problem of destructive recreational activities in Cabo Pulmo National Park. The Program provides guidelines to local tour operators to reduce negative impacts of tourism activities on the Parks’ habitats and ensures their economic sustainability. As a result limits on water sports practiced in the Park are set, which dramatically reduces the impacts on the reefs resulting from these activities.
Implementation of Integrated Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning of Bontang
The new integrated spatial plan of Bontang City has been adopted by the local parliament in 2012 and is being implemented in parts. It now includes both land and marine areas with its mangroves, coral reefs and seagrass beds located within four miles from the shoreline. It is the first example of the implementation of the Indonesian Law No 26/2007 on Spatial Planning and Law No 27/2007 on Coastal Area and Small Islands Management to be applied in coastal districts/cities in Indonesia.
Coastal Capital: Economic Valuation of Belize’s Reefs and Mangroves
“Coastal Capital: Belize” addresses threats to Belize’s coastal ecosystems such as unchecked coastal and tourism development and overfishing – by assessing the contribution of reef- and mangrove-associated tourism, fisheries, and shoreline protection services to Belize’s economy. Our results were used to justify new fishing regulations, a successful damage claim against a ship that ran aground on the Belize Barrier Reef, and a ban on offshore oil drilling.
Reproductive choice in national biodiversity policy: Guidance on how to ensure PHE and removing barriers to rights-based and voluntary family planning are included in NBSAPs
The tool introduces the background to NBSAPs, highlights how to engage in national revision processes and suggests entry points to promote the importance of removing barriers to voluntary and rights-based family planning and the development of new Population, Health and Environment (PHE) programmes within the NBSAPs. The tool can be used by anyone engaged in an NBSAP revision process, and is owned by the IUCN Biodiversity & Family Planning Task Force.
How to use it
Specifically, the GSAP states one key and strategic action is, “14.5 Ensure removal of barriers to rights-based voluntary family planning”. The GSAP also suggests tools and resources including resources from USAID and Population Reference Bureau relevant. The references to PHE and barriers to family planning in the GSAP is one of ten arguments which advocates can use to influence NBSAPs stated in the tool. The tool is an output of the IUCN Biodiversity & Family Planning Task Force and the creation of the Task Force was itself an output of the resolution passed at IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseilles “Importance for the conservation of nature of removing barriers to rights- based voluntary family planning”.
Targeting Natural Resource Corruption Knowledge Hub
Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) is a USAID-funded project to improve biodiversity outcomes by equipping practitioners to address the threats posed by corruption to wildlife, fisheries, and forests. It does this through three Strategic Approaches
Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Sustainable Development
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) produced Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Sustainable Development for biodiversity policymakers and practitioners in developed and developing countries, as well as development co-operation agencies and other national ministries. The report highlights examples of good practice and remaining challenges in four key areas: mainstreaming biodiversity at national level; mainstreaming biodiversity in the agriculture, forestry, and fisheries sectors; development co-operation and biodiversity mainstreaming; and monitoring and evaluating biodiversity mainstreaming. Examples and insights are included from 16 predominantly megadiverse countries which span the full range from high-income to lower-income economies. The national level entry point for biodiversity mainstreaming is important and elements to encourage mainstreaming and its implementation in practice across relevant national plans and strategies.
How to use
The policy highlights report can be downloaded at: https://www.oecd.org/environment/resources/Policy-Highlights-Mainstreaming-Biodiversity-for-Sustainable-Development.pdf
Further information on the OECD is available at: https://www.oecd.org/
USAID’s Knowledge Success “20 Essential Resources: Population, Health & Environment” and Population Health & Environment Toolkits
Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) is an integrated communitybased approach that recognizes the relationships between people’s health an d the environment. This multisectoral approach strives to improve voluntary family planning and reproduct ive health care and conservation and natural resource management within th e communities living in ecologically rich areas of our globe.
Access to voluntary family planning enables couples to decide whether, when , and how many children to have, resulting in healthier women, children, and communities. Along with increased access to education, family planning can also contribute to slowing population growth and therefore may lessen press ure on natural resources. The PHE approach also encourages communities to engage in sustainable practices to preserve their ecosystems.
IUCN SSC & CEESP Biodiversity & Family Planning Task Force
The International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, is the only global membership union composed of both government and civil society organisations. The Biodiversity & Family Planning Task Force is the first and only IUCN entity focussed exclusively on the connections between reproductive and environmental health. We are the IUCN Task Force with the greatest emphasis on human health. Our work is critically important because environmental and human health are inextricably linked.
