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Enhancing Grenada's Protected Areas: Conservation Strategies and Future Goals

Explore Grenada's commitment to protecting its biodiversity with the establishment of protected areas. Learn about the country's conservation targets, ecological gap assessments, and environmental risk assessments. Discover the initiatives aimed at improving protected area management and network design. Gain insights into Grenada's National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan and the St. George's Declaration.

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Enhancing Grenada's Protected Areas: Conservation Strategies and Future Goals

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  1. 7th COP Convention on Biological Diversity • 184 countries adopted the Programme of Work on Protected Areas • Committed to protecting 10% of representative terrestrial and marine ecosystems by 2010 and 2012 respectively • Grenada Declaration at 8th COP in 2006- Increased the commitment to 25% by 2020 • National Environmental Management Strategy • National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan • St. Georges Declaration • OECS OPAAL Project • Other... MEAs and ….

  2. Grenada’s Protected Areas Systems PlanningEcological Gap Assessment

  3. ELEMENTS OF A PROTECTED AREA MASTER PLAN VISION AND GOALS IMPROVE PA NETWORK DESIGN IMPROVE PA MANAGEMENT IMPROVE PA ENABLING ENVIRONMENT

  4. Ecological GAP Assessment for Grenada

  5. Map the Occurrence of Biodiversity

  6. Grenada Conservation Target Occurrence

  7. 9 Terrestrial • Status • 6 Designated • 3 Pending • IUCN Category • 5 Category II • 1 Category IV • 3 Category VI • 5 Marine • Status • 2 Designated • 3 Pending • IUCN Category • 5 Category VI

  8. Identify Gaps

  9. 9 Terrestrial • Status • 6 Designated • 3 Pending • IUCN Category • 5 Category II • 1 Category IV • 3 Category VI • 5 Marine • Status • 2 Designated • 3 Pending • IUCN Category • 5 Category VI

  10. Grenada Conservation Target Representation within Protected Areas

  11. Environmental Risk Assessment

  12. Human Footprint

  13. Grenada Environmental Risk Surface Examples: • Population Density • Hotels • Marinas • Roads • Airports • Dumps • Anchorages • Agriculture • Fishing

  14. Grenada Preliminary Results Excluding River/Streams Goals

  15. Questions?

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