Summary of our 2022 NBSAP:
VISION: By 2050 human and natural communities will be coexisting in harmony where biodiversity is valued, conserved, restored and wisely used, maintaining ecosystem services, sustaining a healthy Palestine and delivering benefits essential for all people.
MISSION: NBSAP Palestine sets parameters, conditions, and programs to 2030 revisited every five years thereafter to achieve the vision stated via participatory strategic planning and implementation, capacity building, mainstreaming, and bridging science-policy-practice gaps.
Strategic Goals (4), Objectives (6), Milestones (17), and Targets (17) were set up from which 77 specific action plans were formulated collectively.
Goal A. Increase protection and conservation measures to halt the decline and minimize loss of habitats and species.
Objective A1: The integrity and connectivity of ecosystems are enhanced, with an increase of at least 15 per cent in the area, supporting healthy and resilient populations of all species, the rate of extinctions are reduced at least tenfold, the risk of species extinctions across all taxonomic and functional groups, is halved, and genetic diversity of wild and domesticated species is safeguarded, with at least 90 per cent of genetic diversity within all species maintained.
Objective A2: Reducing the six major threats in Palestine affecting biodiversity (Climate Change, Habitat Destruction, Pollution, Overexploitation, Invasive Species, Colonization)
Goal B. Enhance ecosystem services (nature’s contribution to people) and equitable benefit sharing
Objective B. Nature’s contributions to people is valued, maintained or enhanced through conservation and sustainable use supporting the global development agenda with a substantial increase in both monetary and non-monetary benefits shared equitably.
Goal C. Mainstreaming and valorizing biodiversity conservation at all levels of society in an inclusive and participatory manner
Objective C: Develop programs for capacity building, knowledge generation, and knowledge dissemination (awareness)
Goal D. Improved governance, partnerships, and resource mobilization
Objective D1: Bridging science-policy-procedure gaps
Objective D2: Mobilize enough resources (financial and otherwise) to achieve mission
Seventeen targets were identified under these goals and objectives. Under the 17 targets were 77 action plans in the new NBSAP. The 77 action plans shown in the link were detailed to include who will deliver, timelines, potential funding sources and notes on implementation.
Action Points for NBSAP