New Guide To the Global Strategy For Plant Conservation Released
At its tenth meeting, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted a consolidated update of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation 2011-2020. The NZ Plant Conservation Network has now adopted the new Strategy as a core direction for its work in NZ.
A new guide to this Strategy has now been compiled by Suzanne Sharrock and published by Botanic Gardens Conservation International:
The Strategy highlights the fact that without plants, there is no life. The functioning of the planet, and our survival, depends upon plants. It seeks to halt the continuing loss of plant diversity.
The strategy’s vision is:
Our vision is of a positive, sustainable future where human activities support the diversity of plant life (including the endurance of plant genetic diversity, survival of plant species and communities and their associated habitats and ecological associations), and where in turn the diversity of plants support and improve our livelihoods and well-being.
For more information see the Plants 2020 website - a tool kit for the Global Strategy implementation:
Posted: 04/12/2011