The National Strategy for the Conservation of Biological Diversity
2010-2020 was prepared with the participation of a wide variety of
sectors within society (academic, Government employees, enthusiasts
and communitybased organizations) in several workshops that took
place over a period of 18 months. Overall, over 1600 people
participated nationwide promoting debate and enriching the
diagnosis by giving their different points of view. During the
workshops, the problems associated with the loss of Biological
Diversity were identified and its causes and consequences analyzed.
The identified causes were then grouped in three different scales:
proximate, intermediate and structural. The next stage consisted in
the collective construction of strategies for the conservation of
Biological Diversity. Using the diagnosis of the problems and
current situation as a starting point, seven strategic lines were
formulated, as the technical elements required to confront the loss
of Biological Diversity and seven crosscutting themes identified as
the political and social elements necessary to guarantee biological
conservation together with social commitment. This collective
construction ensured that the participants were involved in the
entire process of the preparation of the Strategy, generating an
emergent awareness and contributing to the transformation of the
country's situation via the transformation of individuals and vice
versa. The National Strategy for the Conservation of Biological
Diversity contains the fundamental guidelines that will govern
actions taken during the 2010- 2020 period. It is composed of a
general objective and several specific objectives, which contain
general actions that constitute the basis on which the Action Plans
are built.
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