National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plan.

The National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plan (NBSAP) is Kiribati’s response to its commitments under the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD). The NBSAP is a cross-sectoral plan with national coverage that is expected to provide guidelines and strategies for the conservation of biodiversity in Kiribati. The NBSAP covers a five-year period between 2006-2010.
The NBSAP will seek the improvement of informal education and public awareness at local community levels, which would form the basis for improved decision-making and participatory approach in biodiversity protection; and the sustainable use and management of land and terrestrial resources that are in line with traditional and customary land and marine tenure systems. In addition, it will be sought that biological resources shall be enhanced, used and manage to maintain biological diversity in the short and long term run; that available data and information on national biodiversity shall be expanded and made available to policy makers and the public; and that activities that pollute and threaten biodiversity shall be minimized.
The NBSAP will identify and develop incentives that would generate income to local communities, while carrying out a community based environmental protection and management.
The Environment and Conservation Division of Ministry of Environment, Lands and Agriculture Development would work in close collaboration with key government sectors, private sectors and civil society, to implement the NBSAP.