biodiversity conservation and protected area management

We believe that in order to address issues of poverty and rural development, there is a clear need to conserve the environment upon which rural populations ultimately depend. theIDLgroup is working to realize linkages between the needs of local people, commercial interests, and host Governments, and the need to maintain diversity of ecosystems and wildlife.   We are actively working to support implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its development through international fora. We assist in resource transfers to biodiversity-rich countries and the equitable sharing of benefits from genetic resources. We aim to find a balance between strict protection of natural resources and meeting the needs of rural populations and Governments for those products through integrated landscape management. We strongly support the development of co-management approaches, but we also assist protected area authorities to maintain the integrity of natural areas, both terrestrial and marine. We emphasise capacity building of local institutions and staff to provide cost-effective and sustainable solutions to natural resource sharing.

Selected Experience:

• Developing landscape ecology approaches in Vietnam and Latvia;
• Pioneering protected area management policy and practice in Vietnam;
• Community Based Ecotourism in India to aid conservation of protected areas;
• Protected area business planning in Ghana;
• Biodiversity criteria for sustainable forestry in Indonesia and Guyana;
• Conservation project design and evaluation in Vietnam, Laos, China and Sierra Leone;
• Development of ecological monitoring systems in Vietnam, China and Malaysia;
• Wetlands conservation and management in Malaysia and China;
• Marine Protected Area management in Vietnam;
• Protected areas and biodiversity conservation management in Vietnam;
• Developing a national strategy for biodiversity conservation for the northern savannah in Ghana.