CBD05_Cover_no21.qxp 11/10/05 3:00 PM Page 1 DRY AND SUB-HUMID LANDS AND THE GLOBAL TAXONOMY INITIATIVE TAXONOMY AND THE GLOBAL AND SUB-HUMID LANDS DRY ON WORK OF OF THE PROGRAMMES IN IMPLEMENTATION SUCCESS STORIES Secretariat CBD Technical Series No. 21 of the Convention on Biological Diversity ALSO AVAILABLE Issue 1: Assessment and Management of Alien Species that Threaten Ecosystems, Habitats and Species Issue 2: Review of The Efficiency and Efficacy of Existing Legal Instruments Applicable to Invasive Alien Species Issue 3: Assessment, Conservation and Sustainable Use of Forest Biodiversity SUCCESS STORIES IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAMMES OF WORK ON DRY AND SUB-HUMID Issue 4: The Value of Forest Ecosystems LANDS AND THE GLOBAL TAXONOMY INITIATIVE Issue 5: Impacts of Human-Caused Fires on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning, Abstracts of Poster Presentations at the 11th Meeting of the and Their Causes in Tropical, Temperate and Boreal Forest Biomes Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Issue 6: Sustainable Management of Non-Timber Forest Resources Advice of the Convention on Biological Diversity Issue 7: Review of the Status and Trends of, and Major Threats to, Forest Biological Diversity Issue 8: Status and trends of, and threats to, mountain biodiversity, marine, coastal and inland water ecosystems Issue 9: Facilitating Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity 21 Issue 10: Interlinkages between Biological Diversity and Climate Change Issue 11: Status and Trends of Biodiversity of Inland Water Ecosystems Issue 12: Solutions for Sustainable Mariculture Issue 13: Technical Advice on the Establishment and Management of a National System of Marine and Coastal Protected Areas Issue 14: Integrated Marine And Coastal Area Management (Imcam) Approaches For Implementing The Convention On Biological Diversity Issue 15: Biodiversity Issues For Consideration In The Planning, Establishment And Management Of Protected Area Sites And Networks Issue 16: The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Agricultural Biodiversity CBD Technical Series No.CBD Technical 21 Issue 17: Working Together for Biodiversity: Regional and International Initiatives Contributing to Achieving and Measuring Progress Towards the 2010 Target Issue 18: Towards Effective Protected Areas Systems Issue 19: The International Legal Regime of the High Seas and the Seabed Beyond the Limits of National Jurisdiction Issue 20: Patterns of Species Richness in the High Seas CBD Technical Series No. 21 Success Stories in Implementation of the Programmes of Work on Dry and Sub-Humid Lands and the Global Taxonomy Initiative Abstracts of Poster Presentations at the 11th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention on Biological Diversity Montreal 2005 Published by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. 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SUCCESS STORIES IN IMPLEMENTA- TION OF THE PROGRAMMES OF WORK ON DRY AND SUB-HUMID LANDS AND THE GLOB- AL TAXONOMY INITIATIVE. Abstracts of Poster Presentations at the 11th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Montreal, Technical Series no. 21, 189 pages. For further information, please contact Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity World Trade Centre 413 St. Jacques Street, Suite 800 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2Y 1N9 Phone: 1(514) 288 2220 Fax: 1 (514) 288 6588 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.biodiv.org Typesetting: Black Eye Design cover photos: Angela Lopez/UNEP/Alpha Presse – Marine Life, Spain; ICRISAT; Kdcharin/UNEP/Alpha Presse – Dragonfly, Thailand; Alain Grimard – UNDP/UNGPS Tunisia Contents CONTENTS Foreword. 7 Introduction . 9 PART 1: SUCCESS STORIES IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAMMES OF WORK ON DRY AND SUB-HUMID LANDS 1. BIODIVERSITY, LAND DEGRADATION AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN DRY AND SUB-HUMID LANDS Dr. Adel El-Beltagy, Jan Valkoun, Ahmed Amri, Richard Thomas and Kamil Shideed. 13 2. STATUS OF GLOBALLY THREATENED BIRDS AND ENDEMIC BIRD AREAS IN DRY AND SUB-HUMID LANDS Mike Evans. 21 3. THE BIOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA (TERRESTRIAL ARTHROPODS): ARTHROPODS OF CANADIAN GRASSLANDS Hugh V. Danks. 25 4. SAHARA AND SAHEL OBSERVATORY (OSS) ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME TO SERVE ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA: IMPORTANCE FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY Sandrine Jauffret, Taoufiq Bennouna and Mourad Briki. 29 5. ENDEMISM AND DIVERSITY IN NAMIBIA Patricia Craven and Dr. P Vorster . 32 6. SUSTAINABLE RANGELANDS ROUNDTABLE: A VISION FOR THE ACCEPTANCE AND USE OF SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS OF RANGELANDS SUSTAINABILITY John E. Mitchell and R. Dennis Child . 34 7. IDENTIFYING ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES THAT MAINTAIN BIODIVERSITY IN COASTAL PERU Alessandro Catenazzi. 37 8. HIV/AIDS AND ENVIRONMENTAL LINKAGES: FROM ANECDOTES TO ANALYSIS Jessica Jones, Birga Ndombo, Juliane Zeidler, Timothy Quinlan, Susan Erskine, Lazarus Nafidi, Jonathan Smith, Martha Mwandingi and Catherine Odada . 40 9. PROMOTING BEST PRACTICES FOR THE CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE USE OF BIODIVERSITY OF GLOBAL SIGNIFICANCE IN ARID AND SEMI-ARID ZONES Peter F. McGrath . 42 10. NEW APPROACHES FOR CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE USE OF DRY GRASSLANDS IN SWITZERLAND'S CONSERVATION POLICIES M. Dipner and Ch. Gubser . 45 11. PENDJARI NATIONAL PARK, BENIN: WORKING TOGETHER TO PROTECT NATURAL RESOURCES SERVES BOTH NATURE AND HUMAN KIND Rolf Mack. 48 12. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, JORDAN - A COMMUNITY APPROACH TO CONSERVING NATIVE FLORA Mark Richardson, Kamal Nuimat and Annette Kouz . 50 13. PROMOTING IN-SITU/ON-FARM CONSERVATION OF DRYLAND AGROBIODIVERSITY IN THE WEST ASIA CENTRE OF BIODIVERSITY Ahmed Amri and Jan Valkoun . 52 3 Success stories in implementation of the programmes of work on dry and sub-humid lands and the Global Taxonomy Initiative 14. IN SITU CONSERVATION AND AGRO-BIODIVERSITY IN JORDAN: TRITICUM DICOCOIDES AS AN EXAMPLE Maha Syouf and B.E. Abu-Irmaileh. 53 15. INTEGRATING EDUCATION WITH ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM SOLVING M. Seely, P. Klintenberg and W.J. Hamilton. 57 16. BEYOND THE BUZZ-WORD: A CAPACITY BUILDING ACTION PLAN FOR NAMIBIA Juliane Zeidler, Sem Shikongo, Christian Phillipus, Martha Mwandingi, Catherine Odada, Nik Sekhran, Jessica Jones and Birga Ndombo . 60 17. REINTRODUCTION OF THE MEXICAN GRAY WOLF (CANIS LUPUS BAILEYI) TO THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES: AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE Timm Kroeger, Frank Casey and Chris Haney . 63 18. STATUS, CONSERVATION, AND SUSTAINABLE USE OF BIODIVERSITY IN THE DESERT MARGINS PROGRAMME S. Koala, R. Tabo and M. Winslow . 66 19. MPALA RESEARCH CENTRE LAIKIPIA, KENYA: ADVANCING WILDLIFE CONSERVATION IN HUMAN- OCCUPIED LANDSCAPES Dr. Nicholas Georgiadis, Nasser Olwero, Festus Ihwagi and Gordon Ojwang . 70 20. IT IS PEOPLE THAT MATTER: COMMUNITY BASED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (CBNRM) APPROACHES AND SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT (SLM) Juliane Zeidler, Marie Karaisl, Dora Kirenga, Chris Brown, Sem Shikongo, Martha Mwandigi and Nik Sehkran . 73 21. TANZANIA HASHI PROJECT: REGENERATING WOODLANDS Sean Southey and Gabriele Orlandi. 75 22. MANAGING FOR BIODIVERSITY IN AUSTRALIA'S RANGELANDS Annemarie Watt . 79 23. THE MAKULEKE REGION: A SUCCESS STORY IN SOUTH AFRICA Steve Collins and Arno Sckeyde . 81 24. BIODIVERSITY KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: TEN YEARS OF INTERVENTION UNDER NAMIBIA'S NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY PROGRAMME Juliane Zeidler, Viviane Hoveka, Sem Shikongo, Kirsten Probst and Rolf Mack . 83 PART 2: SUCCESS STORIES IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAMME OF WORK FOR THE GLOBAL TAXONOMY INITIATIVE 26. TAXONOMISTS: AN ENDANGERED SPECIES? Fabian Haas and Christoph L Häuser . 87 27. GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR PLANT CONSERVATION TARGET 1: TOWARDS A WORLD LIST OF KNOWN PLANT SPECIES Frank A. Bisby, Alan Paton, Yuri Roskov and Michael Ruggiero . 90 28. HERBARIA AND THE END-USERS OF BOTANICAL INFORMATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Tamara J. Smith, Yolande Steenkamp and Gideon F. Smith . 93 29. TAXONOMIE MARINE AU MAROC: ÉTAT DES LIEUX ET PROBLÉMATIQUES Mohamed Menioui. 96 4 Contents 30. PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GLOBAL TAXONOMY INITIATIVE Richard Smith and Lucie Rogo . 100 31. GLOBAL TAXONOMY INITIATIVE PILOT PROJECT IN COLLABORATION WITH EXISTING NETWORKS IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC Junko Shimura, Kaduo Hiraki and Makoto M. Watanabe . 103 32. MEASURING SPECIES RICHNESS AT THE CORE OF THE INDO-PACIFIC HOTSPOT: THE PANGLAO MARINEBIODIVERSITY PROJECT Philippe Bouchet, Danilo Largo, Peter Ng and Ludivina Labe . 107 33. THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORK APPROACH SOLUTIONS TO GTI AND CBD REQUIREMENTS Bernard R Agwanda . 110 34. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY IN TAXONOMIC