National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan III (NBSAP III) for the Republic of Yemen 2025-2030.

The Third National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan for Yemen is a comprehensive five-year framework, implemented in accordance with the Kunming-Montreal Global Framework (K-M GBF) targets, reaffirming the country’s commitment to conserving biodiversity while promoting its sustainable use for economic development. It serves as a practical roadmap to protect Yemen’s unique ecosystems and strengthen resilience to environmental pressures such as climate change, habitat loss, and species decline. The Strategy adopts an integrated approach that combines conservation with community engagement and awareness of natural resource values. It seeks to mainstream biodiversity into national planning processes, enhance environmental governance, ensure policy coherence, and build institutional capacity. The Plan sets clear, measurable targets supported by monitoring, reporting, and adaptive management to track progress and ensure effective implementation.
To balance sustainable use with biodiversity conservation, 6 strategic pathways aligned with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (K-M GBF) goals and targets have been identified (1) Urgent conservation and restoration: Halt species extinction by placing 20% of environmentally important and biodiversity-rich areas under effective spatial planning, protection, and restoration by 2030, with strong community involvement. This includes conserving genetic diversity, implementing CITES commitments, and ensuring sustainable ecosystem management, with full land-use planning and ecosystem restoration targeted by 2050; (2) Equitable access and benefit-sharing: Enhance community access to biological resources and fair benefit-sharing while restoring degraded and aquatic ecosystems to strengthen ecosystem services, disaster risk reduction, and water security. Biodiversity values will be integrated into national planning, alongside corporate transparency and responsible genetic resource use; (3) Sustainable use and reduced pressures: Safeguard ecosystem integrity by ensuring sustainable harvesting, reducing illegal trade, cutting pollution and pesticide use, expanding recycling, and preventing invasive species. Biodiversity will be integrated into climate action through ecosystem restoration and sustainable management of agriculture and other productive systems; (4) Resource mobilization and knowledge enhancement: Close the biodiversity financing gap while strengthening research, traditional knowledge, innovation, monitoring systems, and access to data and technology to support effective implementation; (5) Economic and policy incentives: Create an enabling environment for sustainable use by reforming harmful subsidies, promoting green technologies and renewable energy, engaging communities in biodiversity value chains, and integrating biodiversity’s economic value into national development frameworks; (6) Governance and institutional strengthening: Improve ecosystem governance through inclusive, gender-responsive participation, ensuring fair representation of women, youth, and vulnerable groups, while reinforcing biosafety systems, biotechnology oversight, and compliance with the Cartagena Protocol to protect biodiversity and human health.