Activity 4: Establish and manage inland water protected areas
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Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Include within integrated planning the development of protected area networks, including Ramsar sites: Ramsar Resolution IX.20, 13 SEE COMMENTARY 1
- Establish nature reserves on wetlands: Ramsar Article 4.1
- Establish national networks of nature reserves covering wetlands: Ramsar Recommendation 4.4 SEE COMMENTARY 2
- Establish reserves as wetlands linked by migratory birds: Ramsar Recommendation 3.2
- Establish representative systems of protected inland water ecosystems: CBD Decision VII/4, 7 and CBD Decision VII/4, Annex (Revised programme of work on inland water biodiversity) SEE COMMENTARY 3
- Increase the effective protection and management of marine and inland water ecosystems: CBD Decision VIII/24, 11 SEE COMMENTARY 2a
- Co-ordinate the establishment of inland and marine protected areas, critical habitats and endangered species, especially migratory species in transboundary areas:SADC Protocol on Fisheries Article XIV 7
Coordinate efforts to ensure that a network of suitable habitats is maintained:AEWA Article, 2 b
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Promote environmentally sound development in areas adjacent to protected areas: CBD Article 8e
- Consider options, in the context of protected areas, such as ecological networks and corridors and buffer zones: CBD Decision VII/28, 13
- Assign protected-area management categories to protected areas: CBD Decision VII/28, 31
- Establish and strengthen national and regional systems of protected areas: CBD Decision VII/28, 5 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex (Programme of work on protected areas) SEE COMMENTARY 4
- Integrate protected areas into broader land- and seascapes and sectors: CBD Decision VII/28, 5 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex (Programme of work on protected areas) SEE COMMENTARY 4
- Improve site-based protected area planning and management: CBD Decision VII/28, 5 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex (Programme of work on protected areas) SEE COMMENTARY 4
- Prevent and mitigate negative impacts of key threats to protected areas: CBD Decision VII/28, 5 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex (Programme of work on protected areas) SEE COMMENTARY 4
- Promote equity and benefit-sharing: CBD Decision VII/28, 5 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex (Programme of work on protected areas) SEE COMMENTARY 4
- Develop and adopt minimum standards and best practices for national and regional protected area systems: CBD Decision VII/28, 5 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex (Programme of work on protected areas) SEE COMMENTARY 4
- Evaluate and improve the effectiveness of protected areas management: CBD Decision VII/28, 5 and CBD Decision VII/28, Annex (Programme of work on protected areas) SEE COMMENTARY 4
- Use and establish additional protected areas and develop specific measures for biodiversity in dry and sub-humid lands: CBD Decision V/23, 3 and CBD Decision V/23, Annex (Programme of work on dry and sub-humid lands) SEE COMMENTARY 5
- Identify and establish systems of protected areas to conserve viable populations of island species, with full participation of indigenous and local communities: CBD Decision VIII/1, 1 and CBD Decision VIII/1, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 3a
- Create viable national systems of protected areas that are resiliant to climate change: CBD Decision VIII/1, 1 and CBD Decision VIII/1, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 3b
- Use the toolkits for identification, designation, monitoring and evaluation of protected area systems: CBD Decision VIII/24, 29
- Translate tools for identification, designation, monitoring and evaluation of protected area systems into national and local languages: CBD Decision VIII/24, 31 SEE COMMENTARY 3c
- Continuously improve toolkits on protected areas in cooperation with relevant partners: CBD Decision VIII/24, 34 SEE COMMENTARY 3d
- Protect the Universal Value, integrity and authenticity of World Heritage sites from the adverse effects of climate change: WHC Decision 30 COM 7.1, 8
- Consider the impacts of disasters on natural heritage when designing strategic goals and plans: WHC Decision 30 COM 7.2, 5
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