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REMINDER: Submission of action plans for implementation of the CBD programme of work on protected areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/78771R (2012-070)
To: CBD Focal Points and PoWPA Focal Points

Reminder - Nominations for a Regional Workshop in Africa on the Review of Implementation of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/67667R (2009-089)
To: CBD Focal Points and PoWPA Focal Points in Africa

I call upon the remaining countries to kindly submit their nomination of one delegate before 14 August 2009, to allow time for the Secretariat to arrange the most economic travel to the workshop. Due to budgetary constraints, funding for nominations received past this date can not be guaran ...

Reminder - Nominations for the Regional Workshop for Asia and the Pacific on the Review of Implementation of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/67668R (2009-088)
To: CBD Focal Points and PoWPA Focal Points in Asia and the Pacific

I call upon the remaining countries to kindly submit their nomination of one delegate before 14 August 2009, to allow time for the Secretariat to arrange the most economic travel to the workshop

Reminder - Nominations for the Regional Workshop for Latin America and the Caribbean on the Review of Implementation of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/67669R (2009-087)
To: CBD Focal Points and PoWPA Focal Points in Latin America and the Caribbean

I call upon the remaining countries to kindly submit their nomination of one delegate before 14 August 2009, to allow time for the Secretariat to arrange the most economic travel to the workshop. Due to budgetary constraints, funding for nominations received past this date can not be guaran ...

Reminder: Designation of a National Focal Point for the Programme of Work on Protected Areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/65011R (2009-170)
To: CBD National Focal Points

Vide notification 2008-124 dated 23 September 2008, and reminder notifications (2009-053 of 13 May 2009 and 2009-079 of 9 July 2009), Parties were requested to designate a National Focal Point for the Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA-NFP) as per paragraph A 21 of decision IX/18. As o ...

Reminder: Designation of a National Focal Point for the Programme of Work on Protected Areas (PoWPA-NFP)

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/65011R (2009-053)
To: CBD National Focal Points

Parties that have not yet nominated a PoWPA-NFP are kindly reminded to do so by providing the name and full contact details of the nominee to the Secretariat (secretariat@cbd.int) in the briefest of delays and before 26 June 2009.

Report of the Colloquium on the role of Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas in achieving the Aichi Targets, held on 13 October 2012, in Hyderabad, India

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/JS/lj/80815 (2012-156)
To: CBD Focal Points, PoWPA Focal Points, ILCs, International Organizations, and NGOs

Request for Comments and Feedback on the Draft Guidelines for Recognizing and Reporting Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures of the World Commission on Protected Areas Task Force

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/SBG/ESE/86938 (2017-112)
To: CBD National Focal Points, PoWPA Focal Points, Relevant organizations, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, United Nations/International organizations

Request for Comments and Feedback on the Draft Report 'Making Money Local: Can Protected Areas Deliver Both Economic Benefits and Conservation Objectives?'

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/SBG/ESE/89011 (2020-062)
To: CBD National Focal Points, PoWPA Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

Request for comments on the draft guide “Integrating protected areas within wider landscapes, seascapes and sectoral plans and strategies”

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG /lj/67913 (2009-072)
To: CBD National Focal Points, PoWPA Focal Points and relevant organizations

Based upon the agreed structure and guidance provided by the workshop participants, a draft guide was prepared and submitted to all the participants in the workshop for comments, additional case studies and examples. A revised version of the draft guide was subsequently prepared incorporating th ...

Request for comments on the draft toolkit “Governance of Protected Areas - from understanding to action”

Reference: SCBD/STTM/lj/SBG/80555 (2012-110)
To: CBD and PoWPA Focal Points

Request for updated information from Parties and partners on national and sub-national red lists and red data books on threatened species of fauna and flora

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/CB/CE/83552 (2014-074)
To: All CBD National Focal Points and organizations

Request for updated information from Parties and partners on recent actions and plans related to the conservation of migratory bird species

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/RH/LJ/84166 (2015-010)
To: National Focal Points to the CBD, PoWPA Focal Points, relevant organizations

Request to Identify and Submit Data on Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/SBG/ESE/88552 (2019-116)
To: CBD National Focal Points; PoWPA Focal Points; relevant organizations; indigenous peoples and local communities

Request to respond to surveys in preparation for Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) funding call to countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP)

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/CB/84690 (2015-060)
To: SBSTTA focal points and PoWPA focal points from Africa

Request to review and submit information for the publication of the 2014 UN List of Protected Areas

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/RH/83023 (2014-003)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points and PoWPA Focal Points

Request to review and submit information on Management Effectiveness and for compiling the United Nations List of Protected Areas by the UN Environment –World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/SBG/ESE/86679 (2017-066)
To: CBD National Focal Points, PoWPA Focal Points

Request to update information for the Global Database on Management Effectiveness for the publication of the 2014 Global Study on Management Effectiveness Evaluation in Protected Areas

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/CB/CE/83608 (2014-085)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points and PoWPA Focal Points

Review of implementation of the programme of work on protected areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/va/55293 (2006-080)
To: All CBD National Focal Points, other Governments and relevant organizations

Invitation to Parties, other Governments, relevant organizations and other stakeholders to provide information on the progress made in the implementation of the programme of work on protected areas for consideration by the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Protected Areas at its second meeting, ...

Safeguarding Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) sites: an urgent action to implement Decision XIV/1 on the assessment of progress towards Aichi Biodiversity Targets and options to accelerate progress

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/SBG/PG/88220 (2019-058)
To: CBD National Focal Points

Second meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Protected Areas, from 11 to 15 February 2008, FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JM/VA/60369 (2007-121)
To: all SBSTTA Focal Points and CBD National Focal Points

I am pleased to inform you that the second meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Protected Areas (WG-PA/2) will be held from 11 to 15 February 2008 at the Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), located at Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, in ...

Selected participants for the Technical Expert Workshop on Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (OECMs) for Achieving Aichi Biodiversity Target 11, 6-9 February 2018, Montreal, Canada

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/SBG/ESE/86684 (2018-003)
To: PoWPA Focal Points, CBD National Focal Points; Relevant International Organizations, Bi-lateral and Multi-lateral Funding Agencies, United Nations/international organizations; Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities.

Selection of participants for the Meeting to develop a Target 3 Partnership, Cambridge, United Kingdom - 12-14 June 2023

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/MC/90867 (2023-060)
To: CBD focal points, SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities and relevant organizations

South and West Asia sub-regional workshop on the review of, and capacity building for, the implementation of the CBD programme of work on protected areas, 2-4 April 2007, Dehradun, India

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/JG/57164 (2007-007)
To: CBD National Points in the South and West Asia region Relevant NGOs and indigenous & local communities of South and West Asia region

I have the pleasure to inform you that, with the generous financial support of the European Union and the Government of India, the Secretariat is organizing, from 2 to 4 April 2007 in Dehradun, India, a South and West Asia sub-regional workshop on the review of, and capacity building for, the im ...

Sub-Regional Workshop for Central Africa on Capacity Building for Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/76954 (2011-133)
To: CBD Focal Points with copy to CBD PoWPA focal points in Central Africa: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Sao Tome and Principe

In paragraph 7a of decision X/31 on protected areas, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) requested the Executive Secretary to continue to hold regional and sub-regional capacity-building workshops, with special attention to element 2 on governance, ...

Sub-Regional Workshop for Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia on Capacity Building for Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/79659 (2012-060)
To: CBD Focal Points with copy to CBD PoWPA focal points in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Sub-Regional Workshop for Latin America on Capacity Building for Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lm/78450 (2012-015)
To: CBD Focal Points with copy to PoWPA Focal Points in: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela

Sub-Regional Workshop for South and East Africa on Capacity Building for Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/76953 (2011-132)
To: CBD Focal Points with copy to CBD PoWPA focal points in South and East Africa: Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

In paragraph 7a of decision X/31 on protected areas, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) requested the Executive Secretary to continue to hold regional and sub-regional capacity-building workshops, with special attention to element 2 on governance, ...

Sub-Regional Workshop for South, East, and South East Asia on Capacity Building for Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/76888 (2011-158)
To: CBD Focal Points with copy to PoWPA Focal Points in: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Viet Nam.

In paragraph 7a of decision X/31 on protected areas, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) requested the Executive Secretary to continue to hold regional and sub-regional capacity-building workshops, with special attention to element 2 on governance, ...

Sub-Regional Workshop for West Africa on Capacity Building for Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/75438 (2011-062)
To: CBD and PoWPA Focal Points1 in West Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.

In paragraph 7a of decision X/31 on protected areas, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) requested the Executive Secretary to continue to hold regional and sub-regional capacity-building workshops, with special attention to element 2 on governance, ...

Sub-Regional Workshop for West Asia and North Africa on Capacity Building for Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/78925 (2012-027)
To: CBD Focal Points with copy to CBD PoWPA focal points in West Asia and North Africa: Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen

Sub-Regional Workshop for the Caribbean on Capacity Building for Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/79001 (2012-039)
To: CBD Focal Points with copy to CBD PoWPA focal points in the Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago

Sub-Regional Workshop for the Pacific on Capacity Building for Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/76889 (2011-138)
To: CBD Focal Points with copy to PoWPA focal points in the Pacific: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Nauru, Samoa, Tuvalu, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu.

In paragraph 7(a) of decision X/31 on protected areas, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) requested the Executive Secretary to continue to hold regional and sub-regional capacity-building workshops, with special attention to element 2 on governance, par ...

Sub-Regional Workshops for Central Africa and for South and East Africa on Capacity Building for Implementation of the CBD Programme of Work on Protected Areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/77919 (2011-199)
To: CBD Focal Points with copy to CBD PoWPA focal points in South, East and Central Africa: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, United Republic of Zambia, and Zimbabwe

I wish to advise you of a change in dates for two upcoming workshops in Africa for the CBD programme of work on protected areas. The workshop for South and East Africa (planned for 24-28 October 2011 in Cape Town, vide CBD notification 2011-132), and the workshop for Central Africa (planned for ...

Sub-regional Dialogue on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, Workshop on Target 3 of the GBF and UNEP Technical Workshop on the GEF Early Action Support Project for the Pacific Countries, 18-26 March 2024 - Nadi, Fiji

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JEC/MC/91406 (2023-125)
To: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Cook Islands, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu

Sub-regional Dialogue on National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans, and Workshop on Target 3 of the GBF for the Caribbean Countries, 15-19 April 2024 - Georgetown, Guyana

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JEC/MC/91504 (2024-009)
To: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago

Submission of Views on the Draft Reporting Framework on National Implementation of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/71908 (2010-117)
To: CBD Focal Points; PoWPA Focal Points, and relevant organizations

At its fourteenth meeting, the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-14), in recommendation XIV/4, requested the Executive Secretary to prepare for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its tenth meeting, a reporting framework on national implement ...

Submission of action plans for the implementation of the CBD programme of work on protected areas (PoWPA)

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/lj/78771 (2012-018)
To: CBD PoWPA Focal Points and CBD National Focal Points

Submission of information and experiences on various elements of protected areas

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/SBG/ESE/86683 (2017-065)
To: CBD National Focal Points, PoWPA Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, IGOs, NGOs, Indigenous Organizations, UN organizations

Submission of information on implementation of the programme of work on protected areas

Reference: SCBD/STTM/SBG/VA/56696 (2007-066)
To: All CBD National Focal Points, other Governments and relevant organizations

Reference is made to my Notification dated 30 November 2006 (available on our website at: http://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2006/ntf-2006-125-pa-en.pdf), in which Parties, other Governments, relevant organizations and other stakeholders are invited to submit information on implementation of t ...

Subregional capacity-building workshop on Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework for Latin American countries, 9 to 13 June 2024 - Costa Rica

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SS/JM/91654 (2024-037)
To: National focal points for CBD and its Protocols of the following countries: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations

The Convention on Biological Diversity’s LifeWeb Initiative and the Asian Species Action Partnership Announce a Call for Expressions of Interest for LifeWeb’s Zero Extinction Campaign

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/CB/CE/83648 (2014-086)
To: CBD National Focal Points, PoWPA Focal Points, NGOs and local stakeholders of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor Leste and Vietnam

Thematic Workshop on Area-based Conservation Measures for the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, 1-3 December 2019 – Montreal, Canada

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/SBG/ESE/88217 (2019-077)
To: CBD National Focal Points; PoWPA Focal Points;, SBSTTA Focal Points; Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities; Relevant Organizations; Bi-lateral and Multilateral Funding Agencies.

Training workshops for the participants in WGPA-2 and in SBSTTA-13

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JM/CV/61368 (2007-162)
To: All CBD and SBSTTA National Focal Points

The Secretariat, in cooperation with the Consortium of the Scientific Partners, is pleased to announce the organization of two training workshops for the participants in the second meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Protected Areas (WGPA-2) and the thirteenth meeting of the Subsid ...

Workshop on Feasible Indicators for Reporting on the Effectiveness of Protected Areas and Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs), 1-2 March 2022 (virtual)

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/ML/SK/ESE/90114 (2022-010)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, PoWPA Focal Points, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

Workshop on indicators of the effectiveness of protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures (31 October and 2 November 2022); Webinar on Ecological Connectivity - Insights for post-2020 indicators (31 October 2022)

Reference: SCBD/IMS/NP/JC/MC/90585 (2022-063)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA National Focal Points, PoWPA Focal Points, Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Focal Points, ABS Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and relevant organizations

Reference: SCBD/I&O/NR/MC/33038 (2003-011)
To: National Focal Points

Pursuant to Decision VI/25, Parties are reminded to submit their thematic reports on Protected Areas and Transfer of Technology and Technology Cooperation by 30 March 2003. (Thematic reports on Mountain Ecosystems, which were due on 31 October 2002, should also be submitted at the earliest oppo ...

Reference: SCBD/STTM/MV/va/34110 (2003-025)
To: CBD National Focal Points

Parties are invited to submit the name of an expert who may be called upon to serve in the ad hoc technical expert group on Protected Areas. With the financial support of, and at the kind invitation of, the Government of Sweden, it is envisaged that the group will meet from 10 to 14 June 2003 in ...

Reference: SCBD/I&O/NR/MC/34320 (2003-036)
To: CBD National Focal points

Pursuant to decision VI/25, Parties are advised that the deadline for submission of the thematic report on protected areas has been extended to 31 May 2003. Download the guidelines for preparation of all thematic reports at <a href="/world/nr-guidelines.asp?t=thm">http://www.biodiv.org/world/nr- ...

Reference: UNEP/CBD/STTM/JM/va (2003-049)
To: Selected experts for the ad hoc technical expert group on protected areas

The Executive Secretary conveys the list of invited experts and international organizations to the Ad hoc technical expert group meeting on <a href="doc/meeting.asp?wg=TEGPA-01">Protected Areas</a> (Tjärnö, Sweden, 10- 14 June 2003)