target 1 - Reserva da Biosfera da Mata Atlântica

Publishing this document in Rio +20, the Mata Atlântica
Biosphere Reserve - RBMA at the same time celebrates
two decades of their contribution to conservation,
knowledge and development of this magnificent biome,
and starts a new phase of its Mata AtlanticaYearbook
Program.
The “Mata Atlântica Yearbook” is a permanent program
of the Mata Atlântica Biosphere Reserve, created in
1999 with the aim to consolidate, update and provide
systematically and periodically information about the
Mata Atlântica biome, in order to facilitate annual and
multiannual comparisons on progress and challenges in
the conservation, scientific and traditional knowledge
and sustainable development in the forest, supporting
projects and public policies.
To develop this ongoing process of evaluating and
monitoring the Mata Atlântica Yearbook Program
from RBMA is based on the text and the goals of the
Convention on Biological Diversity - CBD, adopted at
the UN Conference on Environment and Development
(UNCED), Rio 92, where Brazil was the first signatory. The
convention, which represents the most comprehensive
and important commitment on a global scale for the
conservation, sustainable use and sharing of benefits of
biodiversity, is governed by the so-called Conference of
the Parties (Conference of the Parties - COP) that brings
together all signatory countries , meeting every two
years.
At the meeting of the COP 10 held in Japan in 2010, in
Nagoya, Aichi province, it was approved a Strategic Plan
defining five goals and 20 targets, called Aichi Targets to
be accomplished by all countries by 2020. Each country
should adapt them to their national realities and establish
their own targets. The hope is to obtain a comparative
evolutive data in a planetary scale of the implementation
of the Convention of Biological Diversity.
Among these targets is, for example, a commitment that
by 2020 all countries have, at least, 17% of its land area
and inland waters and 10% of coastal and marine areas
preserved by Protected Areas effectively implemented.
Other targets, for example, are focused on the sustainable
use of fisheries resources, protection of endangered
species, invasive species control and restoration of
degraded areas. The plan also states that these targets
should be implemented and monitored in a participatory
way.
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