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IMPORTANT PLANT AREAS Target 5 AROUND THE WORLD of the CBD Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
Successes & case studies in implementing the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) International IPA brochure 2010_Layout 1 20/04/2010 12:05 Page 2
Acknowledgements
Plantlife International would like to Plant Areas methodology can thank the following organisations for Mr. Ahmed accommodate data from a variety of their assistance in preparing this Djoghlaf sources and this means that it can be report, and for information on the (Executive used to identify priority sites for projects on which it is based – Algeria Secretary of the plants in any country, despite University of Sciences and Technology; Convention on differences in the resources available. Bhutan Ministry of Agriculture, Royal Biological This is evident in the numerous Government of Bhutan; China Diversity) Important Plant Areas countries where the IPA methodology Kunming Institute of Botany (CAS), (IPAs), championed by Plantlife has been successfully applied, from Yangzhou University; Egypt Tanta International, provide a backbone for the UK to Mozambique. University; Ethiopia & Eritrea implementing Target 5 of the Global National Herbarium (ETH), Addis Strategy for Plant Conservation agreed Ababa University & IUCN/SSC Global under the Convention on Biological Dr. Marco Trees Specialist Group; Falklands Diversity. A growing number of Lambertini (Chief Islands Falklands Conservation; Israel countries apply the IPA guidelines and Executive, BirdLife Hebrew University of Jerusalem; India criteria to identify sites of exceptional International) Applied Environmental Research botanical importance. The programme BirdLife Institute (AERF) & Pragya; Japan has brought together government and International is Ministry of Environment, Nature non-government stakeholders - pleased to have Conservation Bureau; Jordan botanical experts, conservation supported the Important Plant Area University of Jordan; Lebanon practitioners and local communities - programme from its inception. IPAs, American University of Beirut & to focus on the conservation of plants along with Important Bird Areas, are Lebanese University; Libya Alfateh and their habitats. I congratulate all crucial components of the Key University; Mexico The National the national IPA teams as well as Biodiversity Area network - sites of Commission for the Knowledge and Plantlife for the significant progress global significance for biodiversity Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO) & the they have made over the last ten conservation. From our experience, National Commission of Protected years. I also congratulate them for directories of such sites are a Areas (CONANP); Madagascar producing this publication as a formidable tool to guide governments, Missouri Botanical Garden; Morocco contribution to the International Year private sector, investment banks and Forest Research Centre & The of Biodiversity and COP10, which will donor institutions in order to avoid Scientific Institute of Rabat; be held in Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, adverse impact of development Mozambique Universidade Eduardo Japan in October 2010 and will be projects on priority sites and species, Mondlane; Namibia National preceded by a high-level segment of and to direct conservation funding Botanical Research Institute (NRBI); the UN General Assembly attended by towards clearly defined priorities. Oman Oman Botanic Garden, Muscat; heads of state and devoted to BirdLife hopes that all Key Biodiversity Pakistan WWF Pakistan & biodiversity. Areas will become a recognised focus Government Postgraduate Jahanzeb for increased conservation activity in College; Palestine Al Quds University; the coming years. Congratulations to Prof. John Philippines National Museum of the Plantlife International for this Donaldson Philippines; Saudi Arabia Saudi remarkable work. (Chairman of the Wildlife Commission; Seychelles IUCN Plant Nature Protection Trust of Seychelles; Text by Seona Anderson & Conservation Sub- Syria The Syrian Society for the Elizabeth Radford Committee) I am Editorial comments by Joanna Bromley & Conservation of Wildlife; Turks & delighted that so Luke Morton Caicos Islands Imperial College many botanical and mycological Maps prepared by Beth Newman & London and Royal Botanic Gardens specialists from IUCN’s Species Anna McBride Kew; Tunisia Institut National Survival Commission have helped to Design by timjulierdesign Agronomique de Tunisie; Yemen identify Important Plant Areas across Agricultural Research and Extension Front cover image: Wildflowers on Table the world and are engaged in Authority(Taiz); International and mountain in Cape Town, South Africa © promoting their conservation. Data regional organisations – Botanic Louis Hiemstra/iStockphoto from the IUCN Red List programme is a Gardens Conservation International; significant aid to IPA identification Citation: Plantlife 2010, Important Plant Centre for Middle Eastern Plants (part and in turn IPA projects have Areas Around the World: Target 5 of the of the Royal Botanic Gardens stimulated new national level CBD Global Strategy for Plant Edinburgh); IUCN; IUCN Office for initiatives that assess the conservation Conservation. Plantlife International. Mediterranean Cooperation; IUCN status of plant species. Both the Red Salisbury, UK. Mediterranean Islands Specialist Lists and IPAs provide important Group; Missouri Botanical Garden; Copies of this report can be downloaded from information to support and improve WWF Medpo the Plantlife International website conservation efforts. The Important (www.plantlife.org.uk)
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Executive identified which include priority plant sites summary: IPAs around the (Langhammer et al, 2007). The IPA projects in this report highlight the range of methodological tools world available and also some key factors in IPA identification and conservation – the fundamental role • IPA teams in 66 countries from across the globe of local experts, a participatory approach, and raising awareness and engagement among local communities. are engaged in IPA projects: countries with diverse ecological conditions and data Governments committed to this target in 2002 and, although there has been progress much more needs to availability. Their work can provide a template be done. Experts in many countries have prepared the for other countries to identify and conserve IPAs. groundwork but need the support of government and international donors. A relatively small investment of money will provide invaluable data for prioritising • Governments across the world have committed conservation action. Important Plant Areas are not an to identifying and protecting their most optional extra. In many countries they support the important plant areas under the Convention on livelihoods of many of the world’s poorest people and in all countries they provide undervalued services such Biological Diversity. Criteria and many water and flood control, carbon capture, the prevention additional tools for identifying and conserving of desertification and a reservoir of genetic and species diversity. sites already exist - now is the time to act to conserve these priority sites! The projects highlighted in this report illustrate the range of organisations and individuals who are taking the lead in identifying and conserving the world’s most Important Plant Areas (IPAs) are internationally important sites for plants . We hope that these case significant sites for wild plants and threatened studies will inspire others to identify their IPAs and habitats. Identified at a national level, they provide a encourage governments and donors to play their part in framework for implementing target 5 of the CBD Global conserving the diversity of plant life of earth and all the Strategy for Plant Conservation (ensuring the other forms of life which reply on wild plants and their protection of at least 50% of important areas for plants) habitats. and are a vital tool in conserving wild plants and their habitats in situ. 1 We have tried to include information on all projects that we are aware of, however, if there are omissions we Global criteria for identifying IPAs were published in will be happy to update the information on our website. 2004 and are based on 3 criteria: threatened species (A), If you have information on IPA/target 5 projects not species richness (B), threatened habitats (C). In several covered by this report please send the details to Seona countries Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are also being Anderson ([email protected]) Important Plant Areasare not an optional extra
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IPAs in Africa and the Middle East
IPAs in IPAs in Ethiopia & Eritrea Madagascar
Researchers are actively looking for funds to prepare a This plant-rich island contains about 8.8 million hectares of Conservation Atlas for the Threatened Flora of Ethiopia and primary forest and through the Durban Vision Process there Eritrea. This is project will help to conserve one of Africa’s are plans to triple the current protected area system up to 6 most floristically diverse regions, with its c.6000 plant taxa, million hectares of land managed for conservation several hundred endemic species, and native populations of purposes. From 2001-4 Missouri Botanical Garden analysed economically important plants and their relatives. data on 1,200 endemic plant species to identify 80 priority sites for plant conservation (PAPC). In the course of a The expected outputs of this project include an atlas of current project on wild plants for food and medicine, 166 threatened flora, with IUCN Red List status and recovery IPAs have been identified using the PAPC sites, KBA data plans; the identification of a network of Important Plant and a review of the protected area system, and data are Areas; capacity building for researchers; and awareness- being analysed on 1,000 threatened species to update the raising and community projects in and around the IPAs. list. 48 of the IPAs are currently protected with 30 more Work has already been completed on a preliminary under review, which will bring the total of IPAs under legal assessment of 596 endemic plants of Ethiopia (Vivero et al., protection to 78 (46%). There is less information on 2006), IUCN species assessments are being prepared for management at sites and future mechanisms to conserve c.629 taxa, and the Red List of Endemic Trees and Shrubs these sites must include community involvement and on (135 taxa) of Ethiopia & Eritrea has been published (Vivero the ground conservation. et al, 2005) Coordinating organisations: Missouri Botanical Garden Coordinating organisations: National Herbarium (ETH), (Priority Areas for Plant Conservation 2001-2004) and Addis Ababa University (www.aau.edu.et) and the IUCN/SSC analysis of endemic and threatened plants Global Trees Specialist Group (www.globaltrees.org) (www.mobot.org); in collaboration with BGCI (www.bgci.org), Conservation International (www.conservation.org) and Madagascar Plant Specialist Group (www.iucn.org) for IPAs within the Wild Plants for Food and Medicine Project.
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IPAs in the Arabian Peninsula
This project was initiated by the IUCN Arabian Plant Specialist Group to establish a coordinated IPA programme in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Qatar. Currently the project is focusing on Saudi Arabia, Oman & Yemen. Criteria for the Arabian region have been published which specifically include relict species and refugia for connectivity and climate change mitigation (Al- Abbasi et al., 2010).
As well as identifying IPAs in the region, it is hoped that the project will stimulate the production of Red Lists (national and Arabian) and the development of a standardised list of threatened habitats for the region. The project has identified potential IPAs through existing data and has been focussing on field surveys in these areas. The first detailed IPA site report in Arabia has now been published for Jabal Qaraqir in Saudi Arabia (Llewellyn et al, 2010). There is a strong focus on practical conservation planning for IPAs, which includes targeting traditional protected areas (himas in Saudi Arabia, hamiyah in Oman) for inclusion in the network.
Coordinating organisations: Centre for Middle Eastern Plants (part of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh)(www.rbge.org.uk); Saudi Wildlife Commission (Saudi Arabia)(www.ncwcd.gov.sa); Oman Botanic Garden (Muscat, Oman); Agricultural Research and Extension Authority (Taiz, Yemen); IUCN Arabian Plants Specialist Group (www.iucnarabianpsg.org/) Jabal Bura, Yemen: Matthew Hall Yemen: Jabal Bura,
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IPAs in North Africa & the IPAs in Middle East Southern Africa
IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation, Plantlife IPA criteria and methodology for the Southern African International and WWF have begun a project to identify Region were debated by regional experts at a workshop Important Plant Areas in the south and east Mediterranean organised by SABONET (South African Botanical Network) region with country experts from Algeria, Egypt, Israel, and the results reported (Important Plant Areas in Southern Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Africa. Combined proceedings of workshops held in Tunisia 128 preliminary IPAs were identified and mapped Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa, 2005). in 2009. This preliminary list will be expanded in 2010 and further information on the species and habitats present on Mozambique: a preliminary list of 28 IPAs was identified at these sites, the threats to the plant diversity and a workshop in 2004 by national and regional experts from opportunities for its conservation will be collated and a range of organisations. An assessment of the data published. reliability and the conservation priority of the sites was included in the list. The sources for identifying IPAs Coordinating organisations: Algeria (University of included the Southern African Plant Red Data Lists (2002), Sciences and Technology www.usthb.dz), Egypt (Tanta preliminary checklists of Mozambique, the PRECIS University www.tanta.edu.eg), Israel (Hebrew University of database, soil maps and expert opinion. High priority sites Jerusalem www.huji.ac.il), Jordan (University of Jordan include Chiperomi, Namuli, Mabu, Moribane, the northern www.ju.edu.jo), Lebanon (American University of Beirut coastal forests, Quiterajo, Palma, Quirimbas, Serra Choa, www.aub.edu.lb, Lebanese University www.ul.edu.lb), Libya and Bobole. (Alfateh University), Morocco (Forest Research Centre ; Coordinating organisation: Universidade Eduardo Scientific Institute of Rabat www.israbat.ac.ma), Palestine Mondland (www.uem.mz) (Al Quds University www.alquds.edu), Syria (The Syrian Society for the Conservation of Wildlife), Tunisia (Institut Namibia: national and regional experts debated the data National Agronomique de Tunisie www.iresa.agrinet.tn), sources, selection criteria, future protection and IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation (www.iucn.org), management of IPAs at a workshop in 2004 (Hofmeyer, WWF MedPo (www.panda.org), IUCN Mediterranean Islands 2004) producing a provisional list of 39 IPAs. The list Plant Specialist Group (www.iucn.org/ssc/medislandplant), included preliminary site maps in ArcView, based on Plantlife International (www.plantlife.org.uk) sources including threatened species data, vegetation maps, the Namibian Tree Atlas project, centres of endemism and diversity, and expert opinion. This workshop also debated the possibilities for future protection and funding and the involvement of local communities in management planning and monitoring. More resources are needed to continue and develop this project. Coordinating organisation: The National Botanical Research Institute (www.nrbi.org.na) Banan Al-Sheikh Iris haynei: Regato battandieri: Pedro Argyrocytisus
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IPAs in the Americas, Caribbean and Atlantic
IPAs in the Priority plant sites Turks & Caicos Islands in Mexico
A recent research project into identifying and conserving IPAs in An assessment of the gaps and omissions in conservation within the Caribbean employed an innovative range of scientific the protected area system was carried out in 2007, using 214 techniques and community involvement initiatives. The aim of threatened species from the Mexican Red List (2001), 12 plant the project was to develop a methodology which could be used in families and 68 vegetation types considered critical because of these islands and replicated in similar regions. low coverage.
There were three main scientific methods used: habitat The area of these priority plant sites covers 39% of the country suitability modelling which assesses species potential with c.17% considered high priority. The priority sites identified distribution; IUCN Red List assessment for targeted species; the differed from previous assessments and more data is needed, response of a species to disturbance which can facilitate particularly on species distribution, to refine these results. This recommendation for IPA conservation and mitigation of threats at project was carried out in parallel with an assessment of the IPAs. Fundamental to the project was the inclusion of a range of protected area network (Mexican gap analysis) using numerous stakeholders and local communities in identifying IPAs and biodiversity elements and is part of a wider programme to develop raising awareness of the importance of the wild plants and their conservation projects as part of the Mexican Strategy for Plant sites. Conservation.
Six IPAs were identified based on three endemic species Coordinating organisations: The National Commission for the assessments. Conservation threats and recommendations were Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO) also recorded for the sites. This study has great potential for (www.conabio.gob.mx) in collaboration with the National stimulating further IPA identification in many environments with Commission of Protected Areas (CONANP) (www.conanp.gob.mx) similar data availability issues.
Coordinating organisation: Imperial College London (www3.imperial.ac.uk) and Royal Botanic Garden Kew (www.kew.org) (MSc Thesis by Sophie Williams)
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IPAs in the Falkland Islands
This remote archipelago in the South Atlantic has 173 native plant species, including 13 endemic species such as vanilla daisy (Leucheria suaveolens) snake plant (Nassauvia serpens) and Falkland rock-cress (Phlebolobium maclovianum). Five of the species are globally threatened. The dominant habitats are acid grasslands, dwarf shrub heath and coastal habitats. Major threats to the native flora come from soil erosion, agriculture (overgrazing and other), invasive plants, human disturbance (including recreational off-roading), chance natural events and genetic erosion.
Funded by the UK Overseas Territories Environmental Programme and working in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Falklands Conservation’s IPA project has identified 19 candidate international IPAs across the islands. Targeted, standardised, geo-referenced population and habitat data, gathered over two years were analysed in conjunction with historical inventories in order to assess sites against IPA criteria. In the process threatened species and habitat Action Plans have been written and updated. The Falkland IPA site data are now being used for the development of a wider plant conservation strategy for the long term protection of threatened native and endemic flora through sustainable management and/ or protection and long term monitoring alongside public awareness and training projects.
Coordinating organisation: Falklands Conservation (www.falklandsconservation.com) Rebecca Upson Rebecca Nastanthus falklandicus:
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IPAs in the Asia and the Pacific
IPAs in the Himalaya IPAs in the Western Ghats, India A provisional list of 53 IPAs for medicinal plants has been identified in the Himalaya (Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, A pilot study was designed to test the applicability of Pakistan). In addition, a list of 51 medicinal plants in need global prioritisation criteria (IPAs and High Conservation of conservation action has also been identified. The project Value Forest (HNVF)) in identifying and conserving local focused particularly on medicinal plants as this was the hotspots for biodiversity. The study area was the Western conservation issue most central to communities and Ghats (Konkan Region), a global hotspot for biodiversity, livelihoods. The methodology for site selection used the which is home to over 2,000 endemic plant species in its presence of threatened species, species richness and mountains and forests. threatened habitats The study employed randomised surveying, purposive Future actions will concentrate on involving local selection of survey sites based on expert and local communities (collectors, traditional healers, cultural knowledge, and a forest intactness ratio. All methods leaders) in taking forward conservation of these medicinal produced useful information, but the use of local and plants and their habitats, improving protection for the IPAs expert knowledge proved most time effective in identifying across the region and continuing to identify new IPAs potential sites and also highlighted the enormous value of based on medicinal and other plants. sacred groves in the conservation of intact forest areas. This pilot project also illustrated the way forward for threatened Coordinating organisations: Bhutan (Ministry of species and habitat assessments in this plant rich region. Agriculture, Royal Government of Bhutan www.moa.gov.bt), China (Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS Coordinating organisation: AERF (Applied Environmental www.english.kib.cas.cn; Yangzhou University Research Foundation) (www.aerfindia.org) www.yzu.edu.cn), India (Pragya www.pragya.org), Nepal (Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal www.eson.org.np), Pakistan (WWF Pakistan www.wwfpak.org; Government Postgraduate Jahanzeb College), UK (Plantlife International www.plantlife.org.uk)
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IPAs in Indochina floristic region (Cambodia, southern China, IPAs in the Laos, Thailand and Vietnam) Philippines
Palawan Island IPA (also one of the Centres of Plant The analysis of IPAs in the Indochina floristic region will be Diversity and a Man and Biosphere Reserve) is currently the conducted as part of a project supported by the Critical focus of much scientific and conservation action. A Ecosystem Partnership Fund (www.cepf.net) from 2009- checklist of plants will be published soon includng a new 2012. In addition to the main objective to assess the giant pitcher plant (Nepanthes attenboroughii) recently distribution and status of globally threatened plant species discovered in the forests of Mount Victoria. using IUCN criteria, the project will identify the most Coordinating organisation: National Museum of the valuable sites of plant diversity in the Indochina region as Philippines (www.nationalmuseum.gov.ph) the basis for prioritising conservation actions.
Information on plant diversity is fragmentary, hence poorly represented in conservation planning, management, IPAs in the monitoring, and decision-making. The challenge of using Seychelles plants as indicator groups in biodiversity assessment is the lack of knowledge on the biology, ecology, and distribution of plant species, many of which remain un-described. The The analysis of IPAs in the Seychelles was undertaken as botanical data that do exist remain inaccessible to part of a Key Biodiversity Area (KBA) Project (Gerlach, decision-makers because these data reside only in the 2008). In total 48 KBAs were identified, of which 29 were herbarium specimens and the scientific and grey literature IPAs. The IPAs were identified using three criteria: written in different languages. The project will therefore threatened species (species from the IUCN 2007 Red List); train local scientists to assemble the botanical information species richness assessments of five main habitat groups into a database and to combine the plant distributional (montane forest, sub-montane forest, lowland forest, data with the ecological data and other parameters in a GIS marsh, glacis rock); and threatened habitats (montane map to identify the important plant areas (IPAs) for forest and marsh habitats). conservation. Until now, conservation planning in the region has relied largely on the opinions of experts and on The most significant threat, which affects all 48 KBAs, is the use of data on few indicator groups such as birds and habitat destruction caused by invasive species. Other large mammals. threats include development (6 sites), sea level rise (13 sites), and unpredictable climate change (16 sites). The Coordinating organisation: Missouri Botanical Garden future of KBAs in the Seychelles depends on effective legal (www.mobot.org) protection and large-scale habitat restoration.
Collaborating organizations: International Union for Coordinating organisation: Nature Protection Trust of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) www.iucn.org, Botanical Seychelles Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) www.bgci.org, (www.islandbiodiversity.com/nptsindex.htm#NPTS) Society for Environmental Exploration (Frontier) www.frontier.ac.uk; Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP) www.rupp.edu.kh, Kunming Botanic Garden (KUN) www.english.kib.cas.cn, National University of Laos (NUOL) www.nuol.edu.la, Bangkok Forest Herbarium (BKF) www.dnp.go.th/index_eng.asp, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (IEBR) www.iebr.ac.vn/english/homeE.asp, Institute of Tropical Biology (ITB) www.itb.ac.vn. Gloriosa superba, India: Sameer Punde Gloriosa superba, asoca, India: Sameer Punde Saraca
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IPAs in Europe
1771 IPAs have been identified in 16 countries in Europe (Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Macedonia FYR, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine and UK) There are also provisional sites or preliminary projects in Albania, Armenia, Ireland, parts of Russia (Altai Sayan), and Spain. Further information on these projects can be found in a separate summary document which can be obtained from Plantlife International (Plantlife 2010). taken on the Bulgarian coast: Andrew Gagg/Plantlife. taken on the Bulgarian coast: Andrew peregrina, Paeonia
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Tools available to identify IPAs
• IPA Criteria: Europe (Plantlife, 2002); Global (Plantlife, • Refugia & ecological connectivity (Arabian Peninsular) 2004) • Engaging local communities in plant conservation • IPA Boundaries: Dines & Hutchinson 2008 (Europe - Radford & Odé, 2009) • IPA Case study methodologies (see also references • Red Listing & GSPC Target 2 Methodologies below) • IUCN Red List Criteria (2001) (www.iucnredlist.org) • Setting regional criteria (Southern Africa) • IUCN RapidList (http://rapidlist.iucnsis.org) • Habitat potential mapping models (Turks & Caicos) • Sampled Red List Index (www.kew.org/gis/projects/srli/) • Response of species to disturbance (Turks & Caicos) • IPA online database (www.plantlife-ipa.org/reports.asp) • Forest Intactness Ratio (Western Ghats) • Randomised & Purposive survey sampling (Western Ghats)
References
Global criteria The Himalaya ANDERSON S. 2002. Identifying Important Plant Areas in Europe: HAMILTON A.C. & RADFORD E.A., 2007, Identification and A site selection manual and a guide to developing criteria in other conservation of Important Plant Areas for Medicinal Plants in the parts of the world. Plantlife International, London Himalaya. Plantlife International (Salisbury, UK) and LANGHAMMER, P.F et al 2007, Identification and Gap Analysis of Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal (Kathmandu, Nepal) Key Biodiversity Areas: Targets for Comprehensive Protected Area India Systems. Gland, Switzerland IUCN PUNDE S., 2007. Prioritising Areas for Forest Conservation in the PLANTLIFE 2004, Identifying and Protecting the World’s Most Konkan Region of the Western Ghats Hotspot (India) – a pilot Important Plant Areas: A Guide to Implementing Target 5 of the study. Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF). Pune, Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. Plantlife International India DINES T. & HUTCHINSON N., 2008, Developing IPA boundaries in Madagascar the UK. Plantlife International, UK (www.plantlife.org.uk) MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, 2005, Assessment of Priority Arabian Peninsular Areas for Plant Conservation (CEPF Final Project Completion AL-ABBASI T.M., AL-FARHAN A., AL-KHULAIDI A.W., HALL M., Report) www.cepf.net LLEWELLYN O.A., MILLER A.G. & PATZELT A., 2010, Important Plant Mexico Areas in the Arabian Peninsular. Edinburgh Journal of Botany (67) KOLEFF P., TAMBUTTI M., MARCH I.J., ESQUIVEL R., CANTÚ C., LIRA- (1), pp.25-35 NORIEGA A., et al. 2009. Identificación de prioridades y análisis LLEWELLYN O.A., HALL M., MILLER A.G., AL-ABBASI T.M., AL- de vacíos y omisiones en la conservación de la biodiversidad de WETAID A.H.,AL-HARBI R.J., AL-SHAMMARI K.F. & AL-FARHAN A., México, en Capital natural de México, vol. II: Estado de 2010, Important Plant Areas in the Arabian Peninsular: 1. Jabal conservación y tendencias de cambio. Conabio, México, pp. 651- Qaraqir. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 67 (1), pp.37-56 718. Ethiopia & Eritrea URQUIZA-HAAST., KOLB M., KOLEFF P., LIRA-NORIEGA A. y VIVERO J.L., KELBESSA E., DEMISSEW S., 2006, Progress on the Red ALARCÓN J. 2008. Methodological approach to identify Mexico’s List of Plants of Ethiopia and Eritrea: Conservation and terrestrial priority sites for conservation. Gap Bulletin 16. Biogeography of Endemic Flowering Taxa. In Ghazanfar S.A. & Disponible en
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Country information on IPA and GSPC Target 5 projects
Country Status of project Coordinating organisation(s) Contact details
Algeria Active identification project Nassima Yahi University of Sciences & Salima Benhouhou and Nassima Yahi ongoing Technology ([email protected]) Bahrain Involved in developing IPA IUCN Arabian Plants Specialist Group www.iucnarabianpsg.org/bahrain.htm criteria for Arabian Region Bhutan 10 IPAs for medicinal plants Ministry of Agriculture, Royal Government of Yeshey Dorji ([email protected]) identified Bhutan with Plantlife International A Karma Rinzin ([email protected]) Brunei Attended 2004 IPA regional University Brunei Darussalam Ministry of David Edwards workshop South East Asia Industry & Primary Resources ([email protected]) Muhd Ariffin Abdullah Kalat Cambodia Active identification project Royal University of Phnom Penh with Missouri Jack Regalado ongoing Botanical Garden ([email protected]) Cameroon National workshop for Target 2 Workshop coordinated by Botanic Gardens Bihini Won wa Musiti & 5 (GSPC) Conservation International
China 11 Critical Regions for SEPA State Environmental Protection Kunming Institute - Pei Shengji Biodiversity (6 are within the Administration (Critical Regions for Biodiversity) ([email protected]) Himalaya and smaller medicinal Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy Yang Zhou Uni. - Huai Huyin plant IPAs were identified within of Sciences; College of Biological Sciences & ([email protected]) them) Biotechnology, Yang Zhou University (IPAs for Medicinal Plants in the Himalaya)
Costa Rica Participated in target 2 & 5 Herbarium of the National Institute of Nelson Zamora planning project Biodiversity Costa Rica Egypt Active identification project Tanta University Kamal Shaltout ongoing ([email protected]) Ethiopia & IPA project in planning stage, IUCN/SSC Global Trees Specialist Group & Jose Luis Vivero Eritrea funds required National Herbarium of Addis Ababa ([email protected]) Ensermu Kelbessa ([email protected])
Falklands Preliminary sites identified & Falklands Conservation Rebecca Upson Islands ongoing project ([email protected])
India 1. 15 provisional IPAs for Praya (IPAs for medicinal plants in the Indian Pragya - Gargi Banerji medicinal plants identified in Himalaya) AERF Applied Environmental Research ([email protected]) Indian Himalaya 2. IPA Foundation (methodology study into the application AERF - Sameer Punde Methodological study Western of IPA criteria in forest areas of the Western Ghats) ([email protected]) Ghats Indonesia Attended 2004 IPA regional Herbarium Bogoriense Eko Baroto Waluyo workshop South East Asia ([email protected]) Iraq Involved in developing IPA IUCN Arabian Plants Specialist Group www.iucnarabianpsg.org criteria for Arabian Region Israel Active identification project Hebrew University of Jerusalem Avi Shmida ongoing ([email protected]) Japan Identification of priority plant Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation Naoki Nakayama sites projects predates GSPC and Bureau ([email protected]) hotspot selection is ongoing Jordan Active identification project University of Jordan Dawud Al-Eisawi ongoing ([email protected]) Kuwait Involved in developing IPA IUCN Arabian Plants Specialist Group www.iucnarabianpsg.org criteria for Arabian Region Laos Active identification project National University of Laos with Missouri Jack Regalado ongoing Botanical Garden ([email protected]) Lebanon Active identification project American University of Beirut & Lebanese Salma Talhouk ([email protected]) ongoing University Samir Safi ([email protected])
Libya Active identification project Alfateh University Fathi El-Rtaib ongoing ([email protected]) Madagascar 166 IPAs identified to date as Missouri Botanical Garden (threatened and Sylvie Andriambololonera part of wild plants for food and endemic species analysis and identification of (Sylvie.andriambolonera@mobot- medicine project. 80 Priority PAPCs) Wild plants for food and medicine Project mg.org) Jeannie Raharamampionona Areas for Plant Conservation (BGCI & Madagascar Plants Specialist Group with (jeannie.raharimampionona@mobot- (PAPC) identified (2001-4) MBG and Conservation International) mg.org)
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Malaysia Attended 2004 IPA regional Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FIRM) Sabah (FIRM) Saw Leng Guan workshop South East Asia Parks Board Malaysia ([email protected]) Sabah Parks Jamili B. Nais ([email protected]) Mexico Ongoing identification project & CONABIO (National Commission for the Knowledge Hesiquio Benitez assessment of protected area and Use of Biodiversity) CONANP (National ([email protected]) network Commission on Protected Areas) SEMARNAT (Secretariat for the Environment and Natural Resources)
Morocco Active identification project Forest Research Centre (Rabat) & Scientific Mohammed Taleb ongoing Institute of Rabat ([email protected]) Mohammed Fennane Mozambique Provisional list of 28 IPAs Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Celia Macamo identified ([email protected]) Namibia Provisional list of 39 IPA National Botanical Research Institute Sonja Loots identified ([email protected]) Nepal 16 Medicinal Plant IPA The Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal With Plantlife Krishna Shrestha Complexes were identified with International ([email protected]) 230 IPAs within them New Zealand Active identification project The New Zealand Plant Conservation Network www.nzpcn.org.nz ongoing Oman Active identification project Oman Botanical Garden with the Centre for Middle Matthew Hall ongoing Eastern Plants (RBGE) ([email protected]) Pakistan 7 IPAs for medicinal plants WWF Pakistan Government Postgraduate Jahanzeb WWF Ashiq Ahmad Khan identified within the Himalaya College with Plantlife International ([email protected]) Jahanzeb and Hindu Kush Regions College – Hassan Sher ([email protected]) Palestine Active identification project Al Quds University Banan Al-Sheikh ongoing ([email protected]) Paraguay Project planning completed – Guyra Paraguay Alberto Yanosky actively seeking funds [email protected] Philippines Active identification project Philippines National Museum Domingo Madulid ongoing ([email protected]) Qatar Involved in developing IPA IUCN Arabian Plants Specialist Group www.iucnarabianpsg.org/qatar.htm criteria for Arabian Region Saudi Arabia Active identification project Saudi Wildlife Commission with the Centre for Matthew Hall ongoing Middle Eastern Plants (RBGE) ([email protected])
Seychelles 29 IPAs identified as part of KBA Nature Protection Trust of Seychelles Justin Gerlach project ([email protected]) Singapore Attended 2004 IPA regional Singapore Botanic Garden Ruth Kiew workshop South East Asia ([email protected]) South Africa Acted as coordinator for IPA SABONET – Southern African Botanical Network criteria for Southern Africa Syria Active identification project The Syrian Society for the Conservation of Wildlife Hayan Hmidan ongoing ([email protected]) Thailand Active identification project Bangkok Forest Herbarium with Missouri Botanical Jack Regalado ongoing Garden ([email protected]) Tunisia Active identification project Institut National Agronomique de Tunisie Zeineb Ghrabi ongoing ([email protected]) Turks & Caicos Methodology study & MSc Thesis from Imperial College London & Royal Sophie Williams Islands preliminary sites identified Botanic Gardens Kew ([email protected])
Uganda Active identification project, Nature Uganda (Plants Working Group) James Kalema provisional list of sites in progress ([email protected])
United Arab Involved in developing IPA IUCN Arabian Plants Specialist Group www.iucnarabianpsg.org/uae.htm Emirates criteria for Arabian Region Vietnam Active identification project Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources & Jack Regalado ongoing Institute of Tropical Biology with MBG ([email protected])
Yemen Active identification project Agricultural Research and Extension Authority Matthew Hall ongoing (Taiz) with the Centre for Middle Eastern Plants ([email protected]) (RBGE)
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EUROPE 1771 IPAs have been identified in 16 countries in Europe (Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Macedonia FYR, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine, UK – details in Plantlife 2010) There are also provisional sites or preliminary projects in Albania, Armenia, Ireland, parts of Russia (Altai Sayan), Spain.
International organisations involved in IPA/Target 5 projects
Botanic Gardens Conservation International Coordinated Target 2 & 5 projects with IUCN in Joachim Gratzfeld BGCI Cameroon, Costa Rica, Morocco, Philippines, ([email protected]) Sri Lanka, Madagascar
Conservation International Coordinate KBA projects with national partners in Matt Foster many countries, particularly in South & Central ([email protected]) America
Centre for Middle Eastern Plants CMEP (part of Developing IPA projects in Saudi Arabia, Oman & Tony Miller the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh) Yemen, and other countries in the region with ([email protected]) national partners Matthew Hall ([email protected])
IUCN & IUCN Species Survival Committee Lead partner with Plantlife International in Julie Griffin facilitating Target 5 projects for the GSPC ([email protected])
Kew (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew) Training in conservation methods and support for Colin Clubbe IPA projects in several countries including [email protected]) Armenia, the Caribbean and British Overseas Territories
Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) Coordinating Target 2 & 5 projects in several regions including Africa, Madagascar, Central Asia, and South East Asia
Plantlife International Lead partner with IUCN in facilitating Target 5 of Elizabeth Radford the GSPC, Coordinating IPA projects with national ([email protected]) partners in Europe, North Africa & the Middle East, Seona Anderson published IPA criteria for Europe and other ([email protected]) regions, manage the IPA online database.
Imperial College London
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