Permintaan Proposal #5 Hibah Kecil Program Kemitraan Wallacea II
In September 2016, eleven of the world’s leading nature conservation organisations launched an ambitious new partnership to map, monitor and conserve the most important places for life on earth. The Key Biodiversity Area Partnership will mobilise the expertise, experience and resources of the partner organisations to:
• Identify, map and document thousands of Key Biodiversity Areas worldwide;
• Promote targeted conservation action in Key Biodiversity Areas; and
• Inform and influence public policy and private sector decision-making.
Identifying and documenting sites
Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) are ‘sites that contribute to the global persistence of biodiversity’, including vital habitat for threatened plant and animal species in terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. The Global Standard for the Identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (IUCN 2016) sets out globally agreed criteria for the identification of KBAs worldwide. Using these criteria, the KBA Partnership will develop and maintain a World Database of Key Biodiversity AreasTM and an interactive online map of KBAs with links to detailed documentation for each site. The KBA concept originates in the work of BirdLife International in developing the Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) concept and identifying thousands of IBAs worldwide over the past 40 years. Similar approaches were subsequently developed by other organisations – including the Alliance for Zero Extinction and the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund – and are now widely used to inform conservation planning and decision making. The KBA Standard is intended to harmonise these existing approaches to provide a unified list of sites for use by decisionmakers, other stakeholders and the conservation community. To date, more than 18,000 KBAs have been identified worldwide. To learn more about these remarkable places, and view an interactive online map of KBAs worldwide, visit www.keybiodiversityareas.org
Targeted conservation action
The KBA Partnership will enhance global conservation efforts by systematically mapping internationally important sites and ensuring that scarce resources are directed to the most important places for nature. Through their conservation programmes, the KBA Partners contribute to the conservation of KBAs in more than 150 countries.
Informing policy and decision-making
The KBA Partners will engage actively and constructively with public and private sector policy makers to promote conservation and the sustainable and equitable management of KBAs. Key policy priorities include: targeted expansion of protected area networks; support for communitybased conservation and private protected areas; guidance on business operations in KBAs; and, financial institution safeguards for critical habitats.
Partnership structure
The KBA Committee is responsible for the governance and strategic direction of the partnership. The KBA Secretariat will coordinate the partnership and ensure the delivery and promotion of the World Database of Key Biodiversity AreasTM, which will be managed by BirdLife International on behalf of the KBA Partnership. The KBA Community will provide a platform for collaboration and exchange between experts and organisations involved in KBA identification, review and monitoring. The KBA Consultative Forum will inform the development of the initiative to meet the information needs of end users, including researchers, governments and businesses.
Opportunities for involvement
Experts are encouraged to contribute to the identification of KBAs by participating in national coordination committees, nominating candidate sites to the relevant Regional Focal Point, and/or participating in the review process for proposed sites.
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