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

     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

Overharvesting BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity What can we do about it?

      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

 Late: 19 th century: bird protection

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity International policy instruments Global

Ramsar WHC CITES CMS CBD

Pan-European

European Diploma of Protected Areas European Landscape Convention Bern Convention Eurobats PEBLDS Forest Europe

Regions in Europe

Helsinki Convention ASCOBANS ACCOBAMS OSPAR Convention Alpine Convention Carpathian Convention

BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Trends in nature treaties

  From segregation to integration – – – – – – 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

     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