Lack of integrated management of biodiversity

The Convention on Biological Diversity was signed at UNCED in 1992 by 160 countries. Ratifying countries are required to identify and monitor their genetic resources and to prepare national plans to protect their biodiversity. Obligations also include conducting environmental impact assessments, inducing public/private cooperation, encouraging training and research. For many developing countries with weak conservation laws the obligations are significant, but it is argued that much will be gained in addition from the establishment of national sovereignty over biodiversity, from increases in present incentives to conserve and use biodiversity, and from the possibility to establish laws protecting a country's biodiversity.

The traditional practices of biodiversity management have been weakened over the past few centuries. Examples are the decline of small scale traditional farming methods, mass clearance of land for single purpose uses and the technological overcapacity of modern fishing fleets compared with traditional fishing methods.

1. Many of the planet's species have already been lost or condemned to extinction because of the slow response times of both the environment and policy makers; with one-quarter of the world's mammal species now at significant risk of total extinction, it is too late to preserve all the biodiversity that our planet once had.

1. Unethical practices in natural resource management
2. Undervaluation of nature in planning and decision making
3. Lack of planning
4. Erosion of biological diversity

1. Underutilization of biocontrol
2. Lack of synergy between biodiversity and other development strategies
3. Lack of policy coherence in biodiversity conservation
4. Lack of national action on biodiversity conservation
5. Lack of international coordination in biodiversity conservation
6. Lack of gene banks
7. Inappropriate tree plantations
8. Inadequate management capacity for biodiversity conservation
9. Exclusion of biodiversity factors in development planning

1. Unforeseen environmental crises
2. Loss of cross-border biodiversity
3. Health hazards of environmental degradation
4. Biological disasters

1. Undervaluation of systematic biology
2. Lack of common meanings in biodiversity

1. Using strategic environmental assessment tools for biodiversity planning
2. Using genetic resources
3. Using genebanks
4. Using ecosystem approach for settlement planning
5. Providing biosystematic consultation
6. Promoting cross-sectoral co-operation on biodiversity conservation
7. Promoting cross-border regional biodiversity conservation
8. Preserving gene resources
9. Planning development of natural resources
10. Networking biodiversity research
11. Networking biodiversity conservation initiatives
12. Managing resources holistically
13. Integrating water resource management and biodiversity conservation
14. Integrating soil management and biodiversity conservation
15. Integrating pollution control and biodiversity conservation
16. Integrating biodiversity conservation and landscape management
17. Integrating biodiversity concerns into marine resource policies
18. Integrating biodiversity concerns into economic development planning
19. Facilitating ecosystem climax
20. Developing policy for conservation of biodiversity
21. Developing management plans for protected biodiversity sites
22. Developing adaptive management strategies for biodiversity conservation
23. Conserving global biodiversity
24. Combining public and private sector resources in biodiversity conservation
25. Abstaining from management of biodiversity

1. Unsustainable
2. Undeveloped
3. Underdevelopment
4. Overdevelopment
5. Mismanagement
6. Lack
7. Integration
8. Development