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🌿🌊 The Co-Management Plan of Ria Formosa Natural Park, with CCMAR's contribution, was approved by consensus, promoting the conservation and enhancement of this unique ecosystem. The initiative aims for participatory and sustainable management to protect biodiversity and cultural values. Find out more about it here 👇 #Protecting #ActLocalCCMAR #CCMARnews

At exactly 2 years ago Conservação Internacional (CI-Brasil) started restoring a 160-hectare plot in the Pau Brasil National Park, in the South of the State of Bahia in Brazil, when I was planting the first seedlings within the scope of the Priceless Planet Coalition, an initiative in partnership with Mastercard and World Resources Institute with implementation partner Natureza Bela. I came back this week to see how restoration is taking shape in this ecosystem, which is a remnant of the Atlantic Forest in the Northeast of the country, and in a region we are connecting isolated fragments of forest, in order to bring back a biodiversity corridor to continues to provide the ecosystem services that develop this important and beautiful region of our coast. All of this, also to generate employment and income, which is fundamental for the population from the city of Porto Seguro and the region. We found that there are areas where the restoration carried out with more than 60 native species, via direct planting, is progressing more vigorously, and others, where eucalyptus monoculture was held in the past and the soil is compacted, the trees grow a little slower, but they are growing. The need for monitoring and maintenance is intense, mainly due to the invasive species known as “samambaia” (pteridium esculentum), but the work has been very productive. Ultimately, it is important to show that the restoration process is complex, but necessary and that it has been carried out with great care and efficiency by numerous local partners. This restoration effort is part of a larger initiative that is restoring more than 5,000 hectares of native vegetation in the South of Bahia and North of the State of Espírito Santo, which has been made possible by the partnership with Mastercard due to its commitment to restore more than 100 million trees by 2025 on several continents. About Priceless Planet Coalition: https://lnkd.in/d_9tDNyH Ellen Jackowski Cristina Paslar Sarah Buchwitz Gilberto Caldart Jamie Cross Elise Harrigan Tatiana Souza Ludmila Pugliese de Siqueira Miguel A. Moraes Simon Badcock Rachel Biderman Will Turner Rodrigo Borges Ricardo Aguilar Galeno Marcos Lemos

The araucaria forests in northern Rio Grande do Sul (southernmost state of Brazil) need your help. Let us together convince municipal authorities from the city of Passo Fundo to conserve the reamaining araucaria forests. Enough of forest fragmentation, biodiversity loss and ensuing social unfairness! As we all know, forest conservation and revival is not only a local struggle, but rather a global imperative for the good and sufficient life on Earth. for more information, please see: "The last Araucaria Forests" video: https://lnkd.in/e5dC6eJH Sign please the "Petition for Araucaria Forest conservation: Passo Fundo municipality, RS state, southern Brazil" https://lnkd.in/eNFb8vRb

🌎 OECMs (or OMEC, in Spanish) will be key in achieving the #GBF. However, people must understand that these areas are not to be "designated" but rather identified and recognised so we won't fall into the trap of having "protected" areas without actual protection. This tool, created by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), helps in this task, plus, it provides a framework on how to report on these areas. ℹ It is now available in 5️⃣ languages.

“Other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) are sites outside protected areas that deliver effective and long-term in situ conservation of biodiversity. Biodiversity conservation may be the primary objective of the site, a secondary objective of a site that is managed for other purposes, or it may be an unintended consequence of the way the site is managed. OECMs may be governed and managed by governments, private entities or Indigenous peoples and local communities, or a combination of these. This tool guides an assessor through three steps to apply eight criteria which determine if a site qualifies as an OECM as set out under the Convention on Biological Diversity. For sites which do not currently meet all the criteria, the tool serves to highlight areas where further information or improvements in governance and management are required.” super 💫

CÍES ISLANDS: THREATENED BIODIVERSITY. By 1775, Catalans were already operating in the Ría de Vigo with more than a thousand spiny lobster pots, a species already highly valued at that time. At the end of the 19th century, an important and lucrative spiny lobster pot fishery originated in northern Spain. Spiny lobster landings were exported to France. Historical records of those years reflect that spiny lobsters captured in Galicia and Cantabria were up to 9,000,000 specimens! In the middle of the 20th century, spiny lobster landings were still important, with about 4,000 kg per boat during the 3-month campaign. However, overexploitation of the resource began soon. Fishermen pointed that the indiscriminate use of gillnet gear instead of traps as the main reason. Spiny lobster boats stopped operating in the mid-70s when the fishery collapsed. The veteran former leader of "Santa Tecla" fishermen’s guild of A Guarda village, Francisco Pérez, still recalls the impressive catches in the late sixties, when local fishermen caught up to 5,000 kg a week. In the mid-1970s, lobster declined from the Galician and Portuguese coast, forcing A Guarda fleet to sail to Morocco to continue capturing this crustacean. Spiny lobsters disappeared from Cíes Islands, in the Ría de Vigo, in the mid-1980s. The disappearance from the coast of Galicia of such a symbolic species should alert us on the fragility of marine biodiversity in the face of overfishing. It is up to us that this does not happen again with other species of crustaceans such as the brown crab, or the slipper lobster; or fish such as the moray eel, John dory and other species that have shown a marked decline in recent decades. The solution is in our hands, and among other measures, it is based on creating marine reserves in which biodiversity is safely preserved. Marine reserves have proven excellent results in many parts of the world. On the Spanish Mediterranean coast, they have been effective in the recovery of spiny lobster populations, directly benefiting fish stocks in their surroundings a few years after their creation. It is an example that we should implement in the Cíes Islands. Restoring the spiny lobster stock in Cíes Islands, it's possible!   Links related to this video: https://lnkd.in/deVcE3Hz RAFAEL BAÑÓN DÍAZ* https://lnkd.in/dCWZuvNi https://lnkd.in/dyAev_2F https://lnkd.in/dMJG4dWE https://lnkd.in/dk59fq9d https://lnkd.in/d8Vp3fqR TESOROS Y GALEONES HUNDIDOS. Sténuit, Robert .Editorial: Juventud. Colección Z 160. Filmed on: Cíes Islands. Galicia. Spain. Atlantic Ocean.

🌎👉 Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (OECMs) will be critical to achieving Target 3 – 30x30 – of the #GlobalBiodiversityFramework. Their correct identification, recognition and reporting must be carried out with the necessary technical robustness and at the height of the circumstances. 💡 The IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) provides the following tool to identify OECMs at the site level in several languages. 🌱 This tool is key towards identifying, recognizing, reporting, and supporting sites that deliver long-term conservation outcomes outside of formally declared protected areas. ℹ️ Access the tool in ENGLISH, SPANISH, FRENCH, BAHASA INDONESIA, or PORTUGUESE EN version: https://lnkd.in/gM7EW3Bn SP version: https://lnkd.in/gVS8nRuh FR version: https://lnkd.in/gXnHTDDN ID version: https://lnkd.in/gbdfDNPh PT version: https://lnkd.in/gBcn-SRZ IUCN, Madhu Rao, Harry Jonas, World Wildlife Fund, Daniel Marnewick, Andrew Rhodes Espinoza, UICN México, América Central y el Caribe, IUCN South America, IUCN Asia

Demarest Advogados advised Parques Fundo de Investimento em Participações em Infraestrutura (Parques FIP) on Bidding Procedure No. 03/2023, issued by Instituto Chico Mendes De Conservacao Da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), for the concession of public services to support visitation, revitalization, modernization, operation and maintenance of tourist services in the Chapada dos Guimarães National Park, including the cost of actions to support conservation, protection and management. Demarest relied on partners Bruno Aurélio (pictured left), Renan Sona Silva (pictured right); associates Guilherme Camargo Giacomini, Guilherme Kawano. Read the full article >> https://lnkd.in/d7G_p-D6 #TheLatinAmericanLawyer #deals #transactions

The Super Bock Group are working to ensure the sustainability of the ecosystems of the natural parks in which the sources for their natural mineral water brands Pedras and Vitalis are located. Aware that water contributes to the regeneration of the soil and biodiversity and is a finite resource that must be preserved, the group is working to offset more than 40% of its water consumption by 2050 through soil restoration and reforestation. In partnership with ANP/WWF (Associação Natureza Portugal/World Wide Fund for Nature), the group is conserving existing species on land adjacent to the Pedras Salgadas Park, eliminating weeds and planting about 1,800 trees based on an agroforestry approach to soil recovery. The project aims to: 🌳 increase native forest biodiversity and the natural regeneration of species characteristic of the area; 💧 increase water retention capacity by 23m3 per year; 🏞️ deliver the potential to sequester between 25 and 69 tons of CO2 per year. In 2022, a waterhole was also created for the benefit of local biodiversity, in particular insects and reptiles. Along with the new tree structures around it, it will serve as a refuge for the various birds that inhabit the region. Expand your knowledge of biodiversity projects within our sector: https://lnkd.in/eFxqTvkw #NatureGuardians

New paper: Progress developing the concept of other effective area-based conservation measures Carly Cook has produced an excellent paper on the evolving literately relating to 'other effective area-based conservation measures' (OECMs). The paper sets out important findings and the conclusion is sobering: without more work on the key issues, the OECM framework may not live up to its purported aims. From the abstract: 1. In 2010, the introduction of other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) into international policy caused a paradigm shift in area-based conservation, which included consideration of areas outside formal protected areas and places where biodiversity conservation may not be a management objective for the site. 2. Despite the importance of this shift for global conservation, conservation science and policy have been slow to engage with the concept of OECMs. 3. As the world moves toward conserving 30% of the Earth by 2030, it is imperative to develop evidence-based guidance for how to identify effective conservation measures, especially tools to help evaluate and monitor the biodiversity outcomes associated with potential OECMs. 4. Only 105 studies mentioned OECMs, and those that did rarely move beyond superficial mention of OECMs as part of area-based conservation. Around one-half of studies listed potential risks or benefits of OECMs but none provided evidence these issues have materialized. 5. Twenty-three studies attempted to identify potential OECMs, although specific case studies were rare. 6. The 7 studies that evaluated existing OECMs were highly critical of how they had been implemented to date. 7. Studies that evaluated conservation outcomes were extremely rare, and suggested effectiveness must be judged on a case-by-case basis. Conclusion: The current literature not only leaves many gaps in the science required to operationalize the concept of OECMs, but also often raises additional questions that need to be addressed. If these gaps are not filled by robust science, the promised benefits for biodiversity from OECMs may never be realized. #30x30 #OECMs #science https://lnkd.in/eg4a7QEH