Implementation of the Convention
Measures Taken to Achieve the 2010 Target
Several initiatives have been undertaken in SVG in order to achieve the 2010 target, including species protection and habitat protection. Several species have been legally protected using total bans, quotas, closed seasons, size, weight and gear restrictions and trade restrictions. Protected species include St. Vincent Parrot, the armadillo, the Caribbean Spiny Lobster, the Humback Whale and all species of corals...
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Initiatives in Protected Areas
As part of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, The Nature Conservancy, RARE Centre for Tropical Bird Conservation and the Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies, and the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies, the country intends to establish and maintain a comprehensive system of effectively managed and ecologically representative protected areas on land by 2010 and at sea by 2012...
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Initiatives in Access and Benefit Sharing
Work with genetic resources is limited, but the country ensures, mainly through administrative and policy measures in line with article 15 of the CBD, access to and equitable sharing of such resources for environmentally sound uses. The country has benefited from collaborative work on tissue culture, particularly in improved cultivation of vegetables, fruit trees and other horticultural crops...
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Initiatives for Article 8(j)
Training workshops have been held for fishers on the Grenadine islands of Bequia and Mustique to promote co-management of the artificial reefs in those communities. Consultations were held with local fishers prior to the deployment of these reefs and information obtained during these consultations was used to guide the artificial reef experiment...
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