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Friday 16 october 2020
The report provides an overview and analysis of biodiversity initiatives by Dutch organisations between 2010 and 2020. We focused on the link between the initiatives and the global biodiversity targets for 2020, the ‘Aichi targets’.
The report reveals that Dutch organisations are working on various fronts to enhance biodiversity and thus contribute to the global biodiversity targets established for 2020. Many of the initiatives will continue to run after 2020, which means they are also important for the Action Agenda for 2030.
The vast majority of the organisations have taken area-specific action so most biodiversity restoration results are achieved at the local level. However, the collective impact of all these initiatives on biodiversity is not yet visible at the national level. ‘Until now, efforts made by the authorities and other organisations are insufficient to improve biodiversity in the Netherlands’, says Henk Simons, Senior Expert Nature Conservation at IUCN NL, one of the authors of the report.
The report indicates that the initiatives contribute to raising awareness of biodiversity and to greater participation by citizens and businesses in nature conservation. ‘This can act as a catalyst for other initiatives and for more ambitious policy at the provincial and national level’, emphasises Simons.
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