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Aichi Target 18 beyond 2020: mainstreaming Traditional Biodiversity Knowledge in the conservation and sustainable use of marine and coastal ecosystems

Journal

PEERJ
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

PEERJ INC
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9616

Keywords

Convention on Biological Diversity; Global Biodiversity Framework; Conservation biology; Indigenous and Community-based Marine Conservation and Potected Areas; Marine and coastal biodiversity conservation; Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities; Aichi Biodiversity Targets; Biodiversity Knowledge Systems; Customary biodiversity conservation and sustainable biocultural use; Traditional Biodiversity Knowledge

Funding

  1. NSERC Canadian Healthy Oceans Network and its Partners: Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
  2. INREST (representing the Port of Sept-Iles and City of Sept-Iles)
  3. Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT)
  4. Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) [2017/50220-8]

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This passage highlights the crucial role of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in conserving marine and coastal ecosystems, as well as the international community's recognition of their traditional biodiversity knowledge and rights. It also points out the need for further efforts to fully acknowledge and protect these knowledge and rights.
Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) have inhabited coastal areas, the seas, and remote islands for millennia, and developed place-based traditional ancestral knowledge and diversified livelihoods associated with the biocultural use of marine and coastal ecosystems. Through their cultural traditions, customary wise practices, and holistic approaches to observe, monitor, understand, and appreciate the Natural World, IPLCs have been preserving, managing, and sustainably using seascapes and coastal landscapes, which has been essential for biodiversity conservation. The international community has more than ever recognized the central role of IPLCs in the conservation of biodiversity-rich ecosystems, in particular, for the achievement of the Global Biodiversity Targets determined by the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to tackle biodiversity loss. However, much remains to be done to fully recognize and protect at national levels IPLCs' Traditional Biodiversity Knowledge (TBK), ways of life, and their internationally recognized rights to inhabit, own, manage and govern traditional lands, territories, and waters, which are increasingly threatened. At the 2018 4th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity held in Montreal, Canada, eight themed working groups critically discussed progress to date and barriers that have prevented the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets agreed for the period 2011-2020, and priority actions for the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. Discussions in the Application of Biodiversity Knowledge working group focused on Targets 11 and 18 and the equal valuation of diverse Biodiversity Knowledge Systems (BKS). This Perspective Paper summarizes the 10 Priority Actions identified for a holistic biodiversity conservation, gender equality and human rights-based approach that strengthens the role of IPLCs as biodiversity conservation decision-makers and managers at national and international levels. Furthermore, the Perspective proposes a measurable Target 18 post-2020 and discusses actions to advance the recognition of community-based alternative conservation schemes and TBK to ensure the long-lasting conservation, customary biocultural use, and sustainable multi-functional management of nature around the globe.

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