Biodiversity Action Plan 2009.

The overall goal of this National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plan is: the conservasion and sustainable use of Bhutan’s natural biodiversity for the economic, environmental and emotional wellbeing of the present and future generations.
To achieve the overall goal, the National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plan sets up the following specific objectives: 1. Protect natural ecosystems from degradation and fragmentation as a consequence of environmentally-intrusive human activities and their impacts; 2. Protect species and genetic diversity in general but more especially those species and their genetic variants that have immense ecological, economic, scientific, and cultural values; 3. Integrate poverty reduction and enhancement of local livelihoods in biodiversity conservation programmes in a mutually-reinforcing manner; 4. Create public appreciation and support for biodiversity conservation through nature-based recreation and education; 5. Use biodiversity resources as a development capital for national economic growth but within the limits of environmental sustainability.
The strategies proposed in the document include: Protection and management of protected areas and connecting biological corridors; Reduction of grazing pressures on natural ecosystems; Conservation of globally threatened species and their habitats; On-farm conservation of plant genetic resources (PGR) in arable agriculture ecosystems; Ex situ conservation of PGR for sustainable agriculture; Promotion of biodiversity resources use to support local livelihoods based on community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) framework; Establishment of a network of biodiversity-based public recreation parks and conservation facilities in various ecological zones; Enhancement and systematization of sustainable nature tourism products in Bhutan; etc.