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Biodiversity: Delivering Results in Europe and the CIS cover_BD:Layout 1 9/6/12 2:46 PM Page 1 Wetland rangers with a young pelican (Pelecanus crispus), Kazakhstan. PHOTO: UNDP KAZAKHSTAN Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus) in Sünt-Hasardag Reserve, Turkmenistan PHOTO: MICHAEL APPLETON Biodiversity_00_UNDPelv 9/6/12 9:35 AM Page 1 Biodiversity: Delivering results in Europe and the CIS September 2012 Biodiversity_00_UNDPelv 9/6/12 9:35 AM Page 2 2 BIODIVERSITY: DELIVERING RESULTS IN EUROPE AND THE CIS Biodiversity: Delivering results in Europe and the CIS About the compilers Copyright © UNDP 2012 Adriana Dinu is Deputy Executive The views expressed in this publication do not Production coordination: Nik Sekhran. Coordinator for UNDP-GEF at the Energy necessarily represent those of the United Nations Compilation and editing: Adriana Dinu, Maxim and Environment Group, Bureau for De - Development Programme, its Executive Board or Vergeichik, Michael R Appleton, Natalia Panchenko, velopment Policy, UNDP, New York. the United Nations Member States. This is an in- Nadezda Liscakova. dependent publication by the UNDP Bureau for Design: Valeur, s. r. o., Slovak Republic. Maxim Vergeichik is Regional Technical Development Policy, Energy and Environment Printing: Valeur, s. r. o., Slovak Republic. Advisor for biodiversity and ecosystem Group. management, with the Energy and This publication was printed on recycled paper, Environment Group, Bureau for Deve - The boundaries and names shown and the des- in the Slovak Republic. lopment Policy, based in the UNDP ignations used on maps in this document do not Regional Support Centre for Europe and imply official endorsement or acceptance by the Citation: Appleton, M.R., Dinu, A., Liscakova, N., the CIS in Bratislava, Slovakia. United Nations. Panchenko, N. & Vergeichik, M. (2012). Biodiversity: Delivering results in Europe and the CIS. UNDP, Michael R Appleton is an independent All rights reserved. This publication or parts of it Bratislava. consultant specialising in protected areas may not be reproduced, stored by means of any and sustainable development. He is a fre- system or transmitted, in any form or by any ISBN: 978-92-95092-48-8 quent adviser to the UNDP supported, GEF medium, whether electronic, mechanical, pho- financed projects in Europe and the CIS. tocopied, recorded or of any other type, without Cover picture. Collecting cranberries at a peat- the prior permission of the United Nations land protected area in Belarus. Photo: Sergei Natalya Panchenko is an independent Development Programme. Zyuonak. consultant in ecosystem management. Nadezda Liscakova is UNDP Programme Associate for biodiversity and ecosystem management, Energy and Environment Group, based in the UNDP Regional Support Centre for Europe and the CIS in Bratislava, Slovakia. Biodiversity_00_UNDPelv 9/6/12 9:35 AM Page 3 CASE STUDIES FROM UNDP SUPPORTED, GEF FINANCED PROJECTS IN THE EUROPE AND CIS REGION 3 Acknowledgements Russian stone idols of Komi. PHOTO: ADRIANA DINU We would like to recognize the many partners Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) Vladimir who have contributed to the projects outlined Koltunov (Belarus), Igor Kostin (Russian Federation), in this publication, and to thank the Global Alexander Kozulin (Belarus), Kumar Kylychev Environment Facility (www.thegef.org). (Kyrgyzstan), Yildiray Lise (Turkey), Natalia Lopantseva (Russian Federation), Ahad This book is the result of dedicated work by many Mahmoudov (Tajikistan), Monica Moldovan people. We are deeply grateful to Nik Sekhran, (Romania), Rovshen Nurmuhamedov Principal Technical Advisor for Ecosystems and (Turkmenistan), Nataly Olofinskaya (Russian Biodiversity at UNDP, for inspiring and coordinat- Federation), Vasily Ponomarev (Russian Federation), ing the production of this publication. The book Toni Popovski (the Former Yugoslav Republic of features 30 case studies, prepared with the assis- Macedonia), Gediminas Rascius (Lithuania), Viera tance of project managers and UNDP Country Sefferová (Slovakia), Khalilulla Sherimbetov Office staff in 20 countries: Abduvakkos (Uzbekistan), Andrei Starikov (Russian Federation), Abdurahmanov (Uzbekistan), Azat Alamanov Igar Tchoulba (Belarus), Vasyl Tolkachev (Ukraine), (Kyrgyzstan), Nino Antadze (Georgia), Alexei Klára Tóthová (Slovak Republic), Sandra Vlasic Artushevski (Belarus), Assylkhan Assylbekov (Croatia), Sergei Volkov (Ukraine), Borko Vulikić (Kazakhstan), Victoria Baigazina (Kazakhstan), (Montenegro), Svetlana Zagirova (Russian Alexander Bardarov (Bulgaria), Gojko Berlengi Federation), Sergei Zagrebin (Uzbekistan), Katalin (Croatia), Irina Bredneva (Russian Federation), Olga Zaim (Turkey), and Emiliana Zhivkova (Bulgaria). Chabrovskaya (Belarus), Vladimir Cheranev The compilers express their deep gratitude to all (Kazakhstan), Miroslava Dikova (Bulgaria), Akmal these people for their contributions to this publi- Ismatov (Uzbekistan), Mirzohaydar Isoev cation and to all those who have contributed to (Tajikistan), Mariam Jorjadze (Georgia), Silvija the achievements of the UNDP supported, GEF fi- Kalnins (Latvia), Kuralay Karibayeva (Kazakhstan), nanced projects in the Europe and CIS region. Shirin Karryeva (Turkmenistan), Talgat Kerteshev (Kazakhstan), Guzal Khodjaeva (Uzbekistan), Sukhrob Khoshmukhamedov (Tajikistan), Stanislav Kim (Kazakhstan), Anita Kodzoman (the Former Biodiversity_00_UNDPelv 9/6/12 9:35 AM Page 4 4 BIODIVERSITY: DELIVERING RESULTS IN EUROPE AND THE CIS Foreword Humans bear the primary responsibility for the pests and harsh winters, with corresponding for example stream flow regulation in drought present unprecedented biodiversity loss at impact on crop harvests. The loss of wild plant prone areas, will be critical in buffering several levels – genetic, species, and ecosystems. genes in Kazakhstan could render us incapable human populations from the adverse impacts of Of all the problems the world faces in managing of economically harvesting climate change-re- climate change, including coastal flooding, ‘global goods’, only the loss of biodiversity is irre- sistant fruit crops in 30 years’ time, a now typical droughts and other hazards. Healthy and diverse versible. It is important to realize that curbing case where food security is threatened by a natural ecosystems are expected to be more re- biodiversity loss is in our own interest. When rapidly changing climate. Humanity is only now silient in the face of climate change than de- species experience significant population de- starting to scratch the surface of these intricate graded ones. clines, the result is the underlying loss in the dependencies between biodiversity and human quantity and quality of natural resources and the livelihoods: the unknowns are countless and More than ever, our efforts are needed to con- associated ecosystem services upon which we multifaceted. But we cannot wait until we have serve the natural support systems of the planet. depend. For example, the halving of the popula- a solid understanding of the complex biological The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is the largest tion of the globally threatened aquatic warbler systems before we act swiftly to protect their financer of projects to conserve threatened and (Acrocephalus paludicola) in Belarus has served as functional health. Biodiversity conservation is unique biodiversity worldwide. Since 1991, it has a clear indicator of a similar scale of loss of the the critical insurance for sustained human de- invested over $3 billion in biodiversity conserva- peatland ecosystems on which it depends. This velopment. tion initiatives. GEF resources have benefited a in turn has led to a loss of soil fertility and of the host of threatened species and their habitats, have agricultural and natural resource-based liveli- Climate change is both exacerbating and is contributed to the establishment of more effec- hoods of communities over an area of close to being exacerbated by biodiversity loss and tive and better-financed protected area systems, one million hectares. ecosystem degradation. Healthy forests and wet- and have helped to adapt damaging economic lands contain massive carbon reservoirs and are sector production practices in a manner that In Europe and the Commonwealth of Inde- vital for regulating the global climate. While helps protect biodiversity. Recognizing the im- pendent States (ECIS), the focus of this publica- climate change poses an immense challenge portance of restoring populations of threatened tion, there is ample evidence of these continu- today, the continued degradation of these eco- species in the GEF-5 cycle (2010-2014), a refine- ing losses. The erosion of indigenous crop systems threatens to increase greenhouse gas ment was made to the GEF biodiversity strategy to varieties and landraces in Georgia in the middle emissions exponentially and intensify the nega- support the expansion of protected area systems of the twentieth century has progressively un- tive effects of climate change in the future. The in order to better capture the habitat of threat- dermined the resistance of agricultural crops to sustained supply of certain ecosystem services, ened species. More than 70 percent of all species Biodiversity_00_UNDPelv 9/6/12 9:36 AM Page 5 CASE STUDIES FROM UNDP SUPPORTED, GEF FINANCED PROJECTS IN THE EUROPE AND CIS REGION 5 owe their threatened status to the loss of habitat, ity) and market failures, whereby the market and this directive is intended to improve the fails to signal a price for many of the diverse status of particularly threatened species. services provided by ecosystems.
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