African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) conservation policy across the African range.

Integrate environmental, coastal and marine management considerations into fisheries policy so as to safeguard fisheries and associated ecosystems from anthropogenic threats and to mitigate the impacts of climate change and natural disasters.

Island biodiversity has a notorious record of decline and extinction which continues due to habitat loss and degradation, invasive species, overexploitation, pollution, disease and human-forced climate change. In terrestrial systems, these global and local pressures are more acute because of relatively small land to sea area, high endemism and poor adaptations to resist predation. Regional policy and learning frameworks exist to combat biodiversity loss and environmental degradation, but implementation remains patchy across the 22 Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) within Oceania. PICTs are challenged by small, under-resourced government departments, limited data, and strong political will for rapid economic development at the cost of ecological sustainability. In this synthesis of the special issue, we identify the challenges and opportunities for biodiversity conservation on Pacific islands.

Develop, adopt, and monitor the implementation of comprehensive national policies and strategies that are consistent with strategies and frameworks for sustainable development and that are backed by appropriate legislation, addressing protected area management.

This new Pacific islands framework for nature conservation and protected areas 2021-2025 was endorsed during the conference and subsequently at the 30th SPREP Meeting bu 26members countries and territories in 2021. It reflects the urgent need for transformative action in response to the multiple accelerating threats, both established and emerging, that are faced by nature and people ion the Pacific.

Le Plan de Convergence est un instrument de référence pour la gestion durable des écosystèmes forestiers de l’ensemble des pays membres de la COMIFAC.

Le défi ici est d’actualiser la dimension stratégique du Plan de Convergence de manière à ce qu’il englobe l’ensemble des priorités nationales et sous-régionales en matière de conservation et de gestion durable des écosystèmes forestiers, afin que soit renforcée la convergence entre intérêts nationaux et sous-régionaux.

De nombreuses consultations nationales et sous-régionales ont été conduites et ont permis de recenser les thématiques prioritaires et  émergentes dans le secteur forêt environnement dans chaque pays et à l’échelle sous-régionale. Les thèmes prioritaires et émergents issus de ces consultations ont été pris en compte dans la détermination des six axes prioritaires d’intervention et des trois axes transversaux, ainsi que lors de la formulation des objectifs stratégiques et opérationnels et des résultats attendus.

Les objectifs stratégiques ainsi retenus guideront l’action de toutes les parties prenantes et de tous les partenaires du Plan de Convergence. La réalisation de ces objectifs à long terme contribuera à la concrétisation de la vision énoncée ci-dessus. Les impacts directs sont les effets à long terme qui permettent de mesurer la réalisation desdits objectifs stratégiques.

Les objectifs opérationnels guideront les actions que toutes les parties prenantes et tous les partenaires mèneront à court et à moyen termes pour concourir à la réalisation des objectifs stratégiques mentionnés précédemment. Les résultats correspondent aux effets à court et à moyen termes attendus de la réalisation des objectifs opérationnels.

The Regional Strategy consists of the following three broad strategic areas. First, enhancing the region’s economic and business base by adding value to and commercializing its biological resources; and broadening and diversifying its industrial and manufacturing base. Second, ensuring that economic opportunities that emerge from “biotrade” and economic diversification do not lead to the unsustainable use of the region’s biodiversity and result in the loss of
biological resources and ecological processes. Third, developing and implementing biodiversity awareness, information and capacity building programmes; research and development initiatives; and sustainable financing arrangements.

The main objectives of SADC are to promote sustainable and equitable economic growth and socio-economic development that will ensure poverty alleviation, and ultimately its eradication, enhance the standard and quality of life of the people of Southern Africa, and support the socially disadvantaged. through regional integration. In addition the strategy prioritise crosscutting issues such as Environment and Sustainable Development

State of Environment, Conversation and Protected Areas test

Caring for nature is part of the Pacific way of life. Pacific Leaders have endorsed regional and national priorities for protecting and managing the Pacific environment and its diverse ecosystems and for improving our relationship with nature.

This digital story introduces the State of Environment and Conservation in the Pacific Islands: 2020 Regional Report, which assesses the status and trends of the endorsed 31 regional environment indicators across seven thematic areas.

The information contained in this regional report is targeted to national and regional priorities. Each indicator is mapped to facilitate reporting to priority international agreements and the global Sustainable Development Goals, used to address today’s challenges, such as climate change, pollution, and resource extraction.

To implement fully functioning sustainable finance mechanisms that will provide long-term and reliable funding to conserve and sustainable manage the marine and coastal resources and the environment in each participating country and territory.