National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan 2026–2030.

This National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) 2026–2030 establishes the overarching framework for the conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of biodiversity in the Federated States of Micronesia. It recognizes biodiversity as essential to food security, livelihoods, cultural heritage, economic development, and climate resilience, while identifying climate change, habitat degradation, overexploitation of resources, pollution, invasive species, and unsustainable development as major threats. The Strategy aligns national biodiversity actions with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Convention on Biological Diversity. It sets out a vision of healthy, diverse, and resilient marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems supported by traditional knowledge and community stewardship.
The NBSAP is organized around eleven thematic areas covering ecosystem and species management, genetic resources, agrobiodiversity, sustainable industry, biosecurity, waste management, institutional development, resource owners, biodiversity mainstreaming, and financial resources. It promotes expansion and effective management of protected areas, restoration of degraded ecosystems, sustainable fisheries and forestry, invasive species control, and improved waste management. The Strategy emphasizes the participation of state governments, traditional leaders, local communities, and resource owners in biodiversity governance and conservation actions. It also strengthens biodiversity research, monitoring, environmental education, and institutional capacity while integrating biodiversity considerations into sectoral policies and development planning.