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Delivering on CBD Commitments: Programme of Work on Protected Areas in Dinaric Arc Ecoregion Delivering on CBD commitments: Programme of Work on Protected Areas in Dinaric Arc Ecoregion ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WWF would like to acknowledge the contribution of the WWF Protected Areas for a Living Planet – Dinaric Arc Ecoregion (PA4LP‐DAE) project team for delivering this report. Project Manager (Stella Satalic) Project Assistant (Ivana Korn Varga) National Project Coordinators - Albania (Abdulla Diku) - Bosnia and Herzegovina (Stjepan Matic) - Croatia (Zeljka Rajkovic) - Montenegro (Natasa Stanisic) - Slovenia (Jana Kus Veenvlite) Photo: Hutovo Blato Nature Park in Bosnia and Herzegovina (author: Ivana Korn Varga) Cover page photo: Northern Velebit National Park in Croatia (author: Ivana Korn Varga) Delivering on CBD commitments: Programme of Work on Protected Areas in Dinaric Arc Ecoregion Contents Goal 2.1: To promote equity and benefit‐sharing ............................................. 24 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................ 2 Goal 2.2: To enhance and secure involvement of indigenous and local 1) INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 3 communities and relevant stakeholders ............................................................ 28 2) CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY PROGRAMME OF WORK ON Programme Element 3: Enabling Activities ............................................................ 30 PROTECTED AREAS ................................................................................................... 3 Goal 3.1: To provide an enabling policy, institutional and socio‐economic 3) DINARIC ARC ECOREGION ................................................................................ 4 environment for protected areas....................................................................... 30 4) HOW DID WWF PA4LP – DINARIC ARC ECOREGION PROJECT CONTRIBUTED TO Goal 3.2: To build capacity for the planning, establishment and management of PROGRESS OF CBD PoWPA ...................................................................................... 5 protected areas .................................................................................................. 33 5) PROGRAMME OF WORK ON PROTECTED AREAS ACROSS DINARIC ARC Goal 3.3: To develop, apply and transfer appropriate technologies for protected ECOREGION .............................................................................................................. 7 areas ................................................................................................................... 35 Programme Element 1: Direct Actions for Planning, Selecting, Establishing, Goal 3.4: To ensure financial sustainability of protected areas and national and Strengthening, and Managing, Protected Area Systems and Sites .......................... 7 regional systems of protected areas .................................................................. 35 Goal 1.1: To establish and strengthen national and regional systems of Goal 3.5: To strengthen communication, education and public awareness ..... 37 protected areas integrated into a global network as a contribution to globally Programme Element 4: Standards, Assessment, and Monitoring ......................... 39 agreed goals ......................................................................................................... 7 Goal 4.1 ‐ To develop and adopt minimum standards and best practices for Goal 1.2: To integrate protected areas into broader land‐ and seascapes and national and regional protected area systems .................................................. 39 sectors so as to maintain ecological structure and function ............................. 12 Goal 4.2: To evaluate and improve the effectiveness of protected areas Goal 1.3: To establish and strengthen regional networks, transboundary management ...................................................................................................... 41 protected areas (TBPAs) and collaboration between neighbouring protected Goal 4.3: To assess and monitor protected area status and trends .................. 42 areas across national boundaries ...................................................................... 18 Goal 4.4: To ensure that scientific knowledge contributes to the establishment Goal 1.4: To substantially improve site‐based protected area planning and and effectiveness of protected areas and protected area Systems .................. 44 management ...................................................................................................... 20 6) CHALLENGES AND FUTURE PRIORITIES IN DINARIC ARC ECOREGION ............... 46 Goal 1.5: To prevent and mitigate the negative impacts of key threats to protected areas .................................................................................................. 22 LIST OF ABBRAVIATIONS ........................................................................................ 49 Programme Element 2: Governance, Participation, Equity and Benefit Sharing .. 24 LITERATURE ............................................................................................................ 50 2 Delivering on CBD commitments: Programme of Work on Protected Areas in Dinaric Arc Ecoregion effectively managed, and ecologically representative national and regional systems of protected areas”. 1) INTRODUCTION The PoWPA consists of four interlinked and cross‐cutting implementation components: This publication is an overview of the progress of the Convention on Biological Diversity Programme of Work on Protected Areas (CBD PoWPA) in Dinaric Arc Programme Element 1: Direct Actions for Planning, Selecting, Establishing, Ecoregion (DAE) in the period from 2004 till 2011. Countries included in the Strengthening, and Managing, Protected Area Systems and Sites review, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Slovenia, are the countries involved in WWF Protected Areas for a Living Planet – Dinaric Arc Programme Element 2: Governance, Participation, Equity and Benefit Sharing Ecoregion (PA4LP – DAE) project. The review defines future challenges and priorities and it also shows how WWF PA4LP – DAE project contributed to the Programme Element 3: Enabling Activities implementation of PoWPA and to what extent. Programme Element 4: Standards, Assessment, and Monitoring Data for the review were provided by the respected governments of the DAE The PoWPA assists countries to establish their own national programmes of work countries and gathered by National Project Coordinators (NPCs) who were closely with targeted goals, actions, specific actors, time frame, inputs and expected collaborating with them throughout the project. measurable outputs. The ultimate goal of PoWPA implementation is the establishment and maintenance of an efficiently managed, ecologically representative national and regional system of protected areas that is integrated 2) CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY PROGRAMME OF into a global network of protected areas, where human activities are managed to WORK ON PROTECTED AREAS maintain the structure and function of ecosystems to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biological diversity loss and provide benefits for present The Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA) of the Convention on and future generations. Along with new target for Protected Areas (see below) a Biological Diversity, adopted by the seventh CBD Conference of the Parties special decision on protected areas was adopted by CBD Parties at COP 10 in (February 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), is a world wide effort to reduce the Nagoya, Japan in September 2010 (Decision X/31). The Decision indicates current rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional, national and sub‐national strategies for strengthening PoWPA implementation at national, regional and levels. Its overall purpose is “to support the establishment and maintenance of global levels, and identifies issues that need greater attention. terrestrial areas by 2010 and of marine areas by 2012 to ensure comprehensive, 3 Delivering on CBD commitments: Programme of Work on Protected Areas in Dinaric Arc Ecoregion 3) DINARIC ARC ECOREGION The Dinaric Arc Ecoregion is among WWF's 200 Ecoregions and one of Europe’s biodiversity hotspots with a high rate of endemism. The region extends from its border with the Alps in Slovenia through Croatia and a large part of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, ending in the north of Albania. It is characterised by Dinarids ‐ a central mountain range that extends into Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia. WWF Protected Areas for a Living Planet ‐ Dinaric Arc Ecoregion project, includes five countries, part of Albania (41,09 %), almost twice as large surface area of Bosnia and Herzegovina (80,53 %), part of Croatia (50,65 %), Figure 1. Mediterranean region Slovenia (31,94 %) and the whole Montenegro (100 %) which is all together 137.000 km2. The region is characterised by karst phenomena. Water erosion transformed carbonate bedrock into surface and underground karst features, home to some unique species, including the endemic cave salamander Proteus anguinus. The cave system represents the largest underground river system in Europe and is therefore an extremely important source of water for the entire region. The warm Mediterranean climate has had a significant impact on the diversity of flora and fauna in the Dinaric Arc. Habitats which differ dramatically can be found within short distances. Freshwater
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