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PDF National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan for Iraq (2015 - 2020) En

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Upload date 24 Feb 2016
Contributor Deena
Geographical coverage Iraq,
Keywords National Strategy, Biodiversity, Threatened Species, Habitat, desertification,
Release date 23/01/2015
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1 en.draft_nbsap_iraq_rev1.pdf Deena 21 Jan 2015 2 MB application/pdf
2 En_NBSAP_Iraq_rev6.pdf (current) Amro Alaadeen 24 Feb 2016 3 MB application/pdf

Iraq has developed its first National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) for the period (2015-2020), to overcome the main problems that the biodiversity in Iraq is facing, and to comply to one of its obligations towards the Convention on Biological Diversity. The National Targets, that have been included in the NBSAP, have been linked to the Global Strategy on Biodiverity 2011-2020 and its Aichi Targets.

The first two sections of the Strategy include background information about biodiversity, stakeholders and the legal framework in Iraq. The main body of the strategy starts from the thrid section, it includes the vision of the strategy and the national targets and action plan which is devided into focal areas, in addition to the implementation part of NBSAP and the elements for measuring the success.