1. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity How to plan for Nature? Testing workshop Camp Reinsehlen, 25 – 27 January 2012

2. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity What is the state of biodiversity?

3. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

4. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Grassland butterfly index

5. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Living Planet Index

6. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity What’s under the surface?

7. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Not all doom and gloom

8. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Drivers of change: HIPPO l Habitat destruction l Invasive Alien Species l Pollution (including climate change) l Population l Overharvesting

9. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Habitat destruction

10. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Invasive Alien Species

11. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Pollution: Arctic Sea Ice

12. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

13. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Overharvesting

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15. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity What can we do about it? l Change behaviour l Raise awareness l Manage biodiversity l Research and monitoring l Develop policies l Integrate biodiversity into planning

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18. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

19. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Early nature awareness l Late: 19 th century: bird protection

20. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity

21. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity International policy instruments GlobalPan-EuropeanRegions in Europe RamsarEuropean Diploma of Protected Areas Helsinki Convention WHCEuropean Landscape Convention ASCOBANS CITESBern ConventionACCOBAMS CMSEurobatsOSPAR Convention CBDPEBLDSAlpine Convention Forest EuropeCarpathian Convention

22. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity Trends in nature treaties l From segregation to integration –Species protection, Area/ecosystem protection –From nature to biodiversity –Sustainable development –Ecosystem services –Integration into sectors –From protection to restoration l From up scaling and downscaling

23. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity EU biodiversity policy l Birds Directive 1979 l Habitats Directive 1992 l Natura 2000 l EU Biodiversity Strategy 2011 l Integration into other policies (agriculture, fisheries, forestry,...)

24. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity EU biodiversity targets 1. Full implementation of EU nature legislation to protect biodiversity 2. Better protection for ecosystems, and more use of green infrastructure 3. More sustainable agriculture and forestry 4. Better management of fish stocks 5. Tighter controls on invasive alien species 6. A bigger EU contribution to averting global biodiversity loss

25. BD SKILLS – Skills for Local Biodiversity From policy to planning