National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan 2001.

This National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) is a comprehensive document aligned with Vision 2025, aiming to provide a roadmap for preserving the country's biodiversity and recognizing the importance of conservation efforts in safeguarding natural resources for future generations. The cross-sectoral goals of the NBSAP include ensuring the sustainability, security, and equitable use of biological diversity to meet the basic needs of present and future generations through a holistic approach to conservation and sustainable use; coordinating the planning and implementation of a biodiversity conservation program by harmonizing activities with those of other government and non-governmental organizations, the private sector, religious groups, local communities, and other civic organizations; institutionalizing biological conservation and sustainable resource use through legislative, administrative, fiscal, and regulatory measures; promoting public education and awareness about the values and benefits of biodiversity conservation and sustainable development; enhancing capacity through formal and informal education, training, research, institutional facilitation, and financing; and facilitating national and international collaboration for the sustainable utilization and conservation of biological resources. To achieve these goals, the NBSAP outlines several cross-sectoral objectives for the sustainable exploitation, management, and conservation of biodiversity. These include enhancing regional and international collaboration, providing support services with a robust institutional and legal framework, developing mechanisms for technological and financial cooperation, strengthening linkages for harmonizing management and regulatory decisions, formulating and enforcing policies to facilitate economic growth, improving sectoral and cross-sectoral institutional coordination, ensuring sustainable output, quality, and availability of biodiversity resources, promoting equitable income sharing from biodiversity utilization, marketing national biodiversity resources domestically and internationally, promoting education and awareness programs, improving accessibility and exchange of biodiversity information, establishing and maintaining biodiversity information centers, promoting research and development for biodiversity conservation, developing new technologies to boost productivity in various ecosystems, creating specific development programs for fragile ecosystems, conducting thorough research before introducing exotic genetic materials, enhancing production and yield of biological resources, protecting biodiversity by preventing habitat destruction, pollution, and over-exploitation, encouraging community participation in biodiversity planning and management, promoting sound utilization of biotechnology, developing sustainable systems for monitoring and evaluating biodiversity, establishing training programs to build capacity and promote technological innovations, enhancing access for women, youth, and marginalized communities to resources for effective biodiversity participation, and strengthening research and training institutions for ex-situ conservation.
The document outlines strategies and an Action Plan to be implemented by 2006, addressing three categories: terrestrial biodiversity, aquatic biodiversity, and agro-biodiversity. For terrestrial biodiversity, the plan includes the conservation of habitats and species through protected areas, sustainable land use planning, and community involvement, as well as the enforcement of laws and policies for habitat protection. In terms of aquatic biodiversity, the plan focuses on the protection of marine and freshwater ecosystems, sustainable fishing practices, and pollution control, along with community-based management and conservation initiatives. Regarding agro-biodiversity, the plan emphasizes the preservation of genetic diversity in crops and livestock, the promotion of sustainable agricultural practices, and the integration of traditional knowledge in agro-biodiversity management.