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CBD Third National Report The Gambia Third national report CONTENTS A. REPORTING PARTY ........................................................................................................................ 2 Information on the preparation of the report............................................................................. 2 B. PRIORITY SETTING, TARGETS AND OBSTACLES............................................................................ 4 Priority Setting......................................................................................................................... 6 Challenges and Obstacles to Implementation............................................................................ 7 2010 Target........................................................................................................................... 10 Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC)........................................................................ 39 Ecosystem Approach .............................................................................................................. 55 C. ARTICLES OF THE CONVENTION.................................................................................................. 58 Article 5 – Cooperation........................................................................................................... 58 Article 6 - General measures for conservation and sustainable use.......................................... 60 Biodiversity and Climate Change....................................................................................... 62 Article 7 - Identification and monitoring.................................................................................. 64 Decisions on Taxonomy .................................................................................................... 67 Article 8 - In-situ conservation [Excluding paragraphs (a) to (e), (h) and (j)].......................... 70 Programme of Work on Protected Areas (Article 8 (a) to (e)) ............................................ 72 Article 8(h) - Alien species...................................................................................................... 77 Article 8(j) - Traditional knowledge and related provisions ...................................................... 81 GURTS ............................................................................................................................. 81 Status and Trends ............................................................................................................ 81 Akwé:Kon Guidelines........................................................................................................ 81 Capacity Building and Participation of Indigenous and Local Communities ......................... 82 Support to implementation............................................................................................... 83 Article 9 - Ex-situ conservation............................................................................................... 84 Article 10 - Sustainable use of components of biological diversity............................................ 86 Biodiversity and Tourism.................................................................................................. 89 Article 11 - Incentive measures .............................................................................................. 91 Article 12 - Research and training........................................................................................... 94 Article 13 - Public education and awareness............................................................................ 95 Article 14 - Impact assessment and minimizing adverse impacts............................................. 99 Article 15 - Access to genetic resources ................................................................................ 103 Article 16 - Access to and transfer of technology................................................................... 107 Programme of Work on transfer of technology and technology cooperation ..................... 108 Article 17 - Exchange of information..................................................................................... 111 Article 18 - Technical and scientific cooperation .................................................................... 112 Article 19 - Handling of biotechnology and distribution of its benefits .................................... 115 Article 20 – Financial resources ............................................................................................ 117 D. THEMATIC AREAS ..................................................................................................................... 123 Inland water ecosystems...................................................................................................... 125 Marine and coastal biological diversity .................................................................................. 128 General............................................................................................................................. 128 Implementation of Integrated Marine and Coastal Area Management ................................. 129 Marine and Coastal Living Resources ................................................................................. 129 Mariculture ........................................................................................................................ 131 Alien Species and Genotypes ............................................................................................. 132 Agricultural biological diversity ............................................................................................. 133 Annex to decision V/5 - Programme of work on agricultural biodiversity............................. 134 Forest Biological Diversity..................................................................................................... 139 General............................................................................................................................. 139 Expanded programme of work on forest biological diversity ............................................... 140 Biological diversity of dry and sub-humid lands..................................................................... 147 Mountain Biodiversity........................................................................................................... 149 E. OPERATIONS OF THE CONVENTION........................................................................................... 153 F. COMMENTS ON THE FORMAT..................................................................................................... 154 1 A. REPORTING PARTY Contracting Party The Gambia N A T I O N A L F O C A L P O I N T Full name of the institution Department of Parks and Wildlife Management Name and title of contact Dr. Almamy Camara, Director, Department of Parks officer and Wildlife Management Department of Parks and Wildlife Management Mailing address C/o Abuko Nature Reserve, Kombo Central Western Division, Banjul, The Gambia Telephone (220) 4376972/3 Fax (220) 4392179 E-mail [email protected] CONTACT OFFICER FOR NATIONAL REPORT (IF DIFFERENT FROM ABOVE) Full name of the institution Same as above Name and title of contact officer Mailing address Telephone Fax E-mail S U B M I S S I O N Signature of officer responsible for submitting national report Date of submission October 2006 Informatiion on the preparatiion of the report Box I. Please provide information on the preparation of this report, including information on stakeholders involved and material used as a basis for the report. Report Preparation: This report has been prepared through a participatory process involving members of the Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) Working Group as the National Coordinating Body for the implementation of projects and progammes in the fields of Agriculture and Natural resources, including the three environment related Rio conventio ns, members of the National Task Force on Biodiversity ( a subset of the ANR Working Group), members of the Divisional Coordinating Committee (DCC) representing the Five administrative divisions and the Municipalities, representatives of Local NGOs dealing with biodiversity matters, a national consultant and the national Focal Point for CBD. The ANR Working Group retained the Biodiversity Task Force which was constitute d in 1997, for the purpose of carrying out the biodiversity country study (NBSAP) as well as give guidance for the preparation of this report and recruited a national consultant to work with the Task Force under the supervision of the Focal Point. The report guideline was initially distributed to members of the Biodiversity Task Force for their sector specific input at the end of which a three-day retreat workshop 2 was convened where all relevant stakeholders were represented. With the assistance of the members of the Task Force, the national consultant prepared a 1st draft of the report under the supervision of the Focal Point and distributed the draft to members of the Task Force for their review and comments. Based on the comments received, the national consultant prepared and submitted a 2nd draft report, which was distributed to members of the ANR Working Group for their review and comments. Based on those comments a final version of this report was prepared by the national consultant. Both the members of the ANR Working Group and the Task Force are representatives
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