Strategy and National Action Plan for the Biodiversity 2015-2020.

5.1.2. The National Strategy for the Biodiversity obeys the principles of the Basic Law of the Environment seeking the sustainable socio-economic development, emphasizing the following: 1. Biological diversity: the natural ecosystems and the biological resources should be considered as national global property in ecological and sociocultural terms and the principal base of the development of Guinea-Bissau. The biodiversity should be kept and considered in the national accountings for the country's well-being; 2. To improve the conservation of the ecosystems the risks should be considered in a premature stage avoiding damages. 3. Pollutant-pay: the damaging parties should be forced to recover the ecosystems and the biodiversity, such parties should not be allowed to continue the pollutant action; 5. To involve different sectors of the local communities and other actors in all the training processes, making decision and execution of policies about the conservation and management of the ecosystems and their natural resources (pag. 80). The search of solutions seek to guarantee food security, eradication of poverty, control of pollution, conservation of natural resources.
With a view to reduce the principal causes of the biodiversity erosion, the following six intervention priorities are designed: 1. To continue and strenthen ongoing action of the biodiversity conservation, through an effective system of protected areas and other mechanisms of conservation; 2. To restore areas and degraded ecosystems and improve the productivity of the lands and their sustainability through the fighting against the burning, the coastal erosion, salinization and acidification of the soils, the management of the superficial and underground waters; 3. To strengthen the advantages derived from the BD and from the ecosystems services, base on the principles of a durable development and equal share of the benefits; 4. To ensure participation and intersectorial coordination to promote actions with all parties in the conservation management and durable use of the biodiversity, solving contradictions in the development strategies and the territory planning; 5. To improve the knowledge about the values of the biodiversity and to promote the introduction of the economy and environmental accounting in the public and national policy sector; 6. To establish and to implement integrated system of ecological and socio-economic monitoring to control the species, the health of the ecosystems and the biodiversity resources tendency (pag. 80). National goal 5: By the year 2020, to reduce more than half the degradation and fragmentation of the habitats and ecosystems, mainly, forests and more sensitive ecosystems, caused by illegal activities. National goal 7: By the year 2020, areas under agriculture, aquaculture and forest exploration will be managed in a sustainable way, assuring the biodiversity conservation, maintaining the essential ecological processes and the link among the different ecosystems.
National goal 2: Up to 2018, the values of the biodiversity will be integrated into national and local strategies of development and of poverty reduction and in the planning procedures and incorporated into the national counting, according to the case. Equally, the high poverty index, which opposes the price of butane gas, forces most of the family groups to use the woody fuel for the preparation of their meals, heating and transformation of their products. The poverty index (people living with less than 2 US dollars a day) is 69,3% in 2010. Relatively to the gender equality, the issued is not taken into consideration in the natural resources management, in the fight against the poverty and in the food safety warranty. This negligence has negative repercussions in the biodiversity conservation and in the sustainable use of the natural resources (pag. 69). Assuring the conservation of the natural resources for the future generation, contributing so that the socioeconomic development is sustainable. National goal 14: By year 2020, supplying ecosystems of essential services, including services related to water and which contribute to the health, life and well-being means will be preserved, taking into consideration the needs of women, poor, of the most vulnerable people and of the local ethnic communities in relation to their sociocultural and religious reproduction
Goal 6: By the year 2020, the management and the capture of any fish and invertebrates reservations will be sustainable, legal and done with the ecossystem application approaches and within the safe ecological limits; plans and recovery measures for more sensitive and/or threatened species will be put in practice. Goal 7: By the year 2020, areas under agriculture, aquaculture and forest exploration will be managed in a sustainable way, assuring the biodiversity conservation, maintaining the essential ecological processes and the link among the different ecosystems. 1.2.4.2. Traditional fishing of subsistence and small scale production: in the subsistence fishing, very modest and appropriate means are used for the exploitation of the halieutics resources located in the close coastal channels and near the mangroves. 7. Managing based on traditional knowledge concerning the biological resources. Goal 18: By the year 2020, to respect the traditional knowledge, innovations and local ethnic communities' important practices for the conservation and the sustainalbe use of biodiversity.
Goal 5: By the year 2020, to reduce more than half the degradation and fragmentation of the habitats and ecosystems, mainly, forests and more sensitive ecosystems, provoked by illegal activities. Goal 8: By the year 2018, to identify the pollutant and the main pollution sources and to create the juridical-institutional mechanisms for its management and reduction at non harmful levels to the operation of ecosystems and biodiversity. National goal 15: By the year 2020, the resilience of ecosystems and the contribution of the biodiversity for reservations of carbon will have been increased through conservation actions and recovery, through the recovery of at least 15% of the most sensitive and degraded forest ecosystems, thus contributing to the mitigation and adaptation to the climate change and to combat the desertification.