Activity 5: Restore inland water ecosystems
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Below are the global and regional obligations in this activity:
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Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Identify priority wetlands where restoration would be beneficial, and implement the measures to recover these sites: Ramsar Strategic Plan 2003-2008, Operational Objective 4.1 SEE COMMENTARY 1
- Maintain or restore Ramsar sites and other wetlands to reduce their vulnerability to natural disasters: Ramsar Resolution IX.9, 12 SEE COMMENTARY 2
- Ensure that wetland ecosystems are managed and restored, as part of contingency planning, in order to mitigate the impacts of natural phenomena, provide resilience against drought and contribute to strategies aimed at mitigating climate change and desertification: Ramsar Resolution IX.9, 14
- Work together to promote and support the recovery of coastal wetlands and livelihoods in countries affected by the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004: Ramsar Resolution IX.9, 18 SEE COMMENTARY 3
- Recognize that the restoration or creation of wetlands cannot replace the loss of natural wetlands: Ramsar Resolution VIII.16, 10
- Apply the Principles and guidelines for wetland restoration: Ramsar Resolution VIII.16, 12 and Ramsar Resolution VIII.16, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 4
- Pay attention to peatland restoration: Ramsar Resolution VIII.16, 14
- Pay attention to the role of wetland restoration in management at the catchment and river basin level: Ramsar Resolution VIII.16, 15
- Apply the Principles and guidelines for wetland restoration when considering compensation under Article 4.2 of the Convention: Ramsar Resolution VIII.16, 16 and Ramsar Resolution VIII.16, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 4
Investigate opportunities to link poverty relief to wetland restoration: Ramsar Resolution VIII.16, 17
- Ensure, when implementing the Principles and guidelines for wetland restoration, that the cultural and archaeological heritage significance of wetlands is recognized: Ramsar Resolution VIII.16, 19 and Ramsar Resolution VIII.16, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 4
- Utilize the resources of Ramsar’s restoration website in implementation of restoration projects: Ramsar Resolution VIII.16, 20
- Contribute information on wetland restoration projects and experience to Ramsar’s restoration website: Ramsar Resolution VIII.16, 20
- Review and amend aproaches to wetland restoration, giving priority to promote restoration as part of wider policy frameworks: Ramsar Resolution VII.17, 12
- When reviewing the approaches to restoration, examine legislation, incentives, impact assessment and transboundary action: Ramsar Resolution VII.17, 13
- Implement and evaluate projects and programmes as a means to promote sustainable restoration of degraded sites: Ramsar Resolution VII.17, 14
- Identify constraints to restoration and develop demonstration projects: Ramsar Resolution VII.17, 15
- Give higher priority to restoration of wetlands and to restore habitat quality in key sites: Ramsar Recommendation 6.15, 10
- Examine the possibility of establishing wetland restoration projects: Ramsar Recommendation 4.1
- Ensure that the agency in charge of wetlands has wetland restoration in their mission: Ramsar Recommendation 4.1
- Seek opportunities for wetland restoration: Ramsar Recommendation 4.1
- Provide the Bureau with documentation on wetland restoration projects: Ramsar Recommendation 4.1
- Enhance the conservation status of inland water biodiversity through restoration and recovery: CBD Decision VII/4, 7 and CBD Decision VII/4, Annex (Revised programme of work on inland water biodiversity) SEE COMMENTARY 5
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Rehabilitate and restore degraded ecosystems and promote the recovery of threatened species: CBD Article 8f
- Restore forest biodiversity in degraded forests: CBD Decision VI/22, 11 and CBD Decision VI/22, Annex (Expanded programme of work on forest biodiversity) SEE COMMENTARY 6
- Rehabilitate or restore biodiversity of 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 7
- Achieve the restoration of habitats: CBD Decision III/9, 6
- Promote the implementation of the programmes of the UNCCD relevant to the rehabilitation of degraded lands, in particular in the area of new and renewable sources of energy; integrated water resources management and mountain ecosystem preservation: UNCCD Decision 1/COP.6, 8
- Take action at a specific spatial scale so as to address the local ecological and socio-economic conditions in a more holistic manner, notably through projects and activities at the local level: UNCCD Decision 1/COP.6, 9 SEE COMMENTARY 8
- Develop and elaborate appropriate and integrated plans for protection and rehabilitation of areas, particularly in Africa, affected by drought and desertification, as well as floods: UNFCCC Article 4.1(e) and KP Article 11.2 SEE COMMENTARY 9
- Re-establish lost or reduced biodiversity components within natural ecosystems: CBD Decision VIII/1, 1 and CBD Decision VIII/1, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 5a
- Undertake measures to restore at least 15% of degraded island ecosystems: CBD Decision VIII/1, 1 and CBD Decision VIII/1, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 5b
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