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Achieving Shared Biodiversity Outcomes through Sub-national and Local Implementation

Presentation to Working Group on Review of Implementation of the CBD Paris - July 11, 2007

Since Release of the Strategy many sub-national plans and strategies have been developed

Biodiversity Outcomes Framework provides a means to connect plans and strategies to shared outcomes, assess progress & set priorities.

“How” – ecosystem

approach & adaptive management used to achieve shared

• utcomes

Assess: value and status of biodiversity assessed as basis for priority setting & improved decision-making Plan: biodiversity objectives &

• utcomes integrated into land,

water & resource management plans Do: Users of land, water & resources encouraged, enabled or required to maintain natural assets Track: Progress in achieving

• utcomes is monitored &

evaluated

Improved Monitoring, Assessment & Reporting Needed to Support Outcomes Framework

Ecosystem Status and Trends Next in the Series

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M a i n e a n d S c

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i a n S h e l f Hudson & James Bay & Foxe Basin Newfoundland and Labrador Shelves Canadian Arctic Archipelago North Coast & Hecate Strait / Haida Quiannis Strait of Georgia Taiga Plain Gulf of St Lawrence and St. Lawrence Estuary Vancouver Island West Coast B e a u f

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t S e a Atlantic Maritime Prairie Montane Cordillera Hudson Plain Boreal Shield Pacific Maritime Boreal Plain Boreal Cordillera Taiga Shield Taiga Cordillera Mixed Wood Plains

Great Lakes Lake Winnipeg & Lake Manitoba

Arctic Newfoundland Boreal Western Interior Basin

Ecological Classification – Ecozones Plus

15 Terrestrial Ecozones 9 marine 2 Large Lake Systems