National Strategy and Action Plan on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity is a national sectoral strategic document of the Republic of Kazakhstan covering the period 1999-2030. Its main goals include in-situ conservation of biological diversity; accounting for and socio-economic assessment of the country biological capacity and its balanced use in the legal framework; expanding the genetic fund, and providing genetic independence and biological security of the country; and establishing conditions for conservation of the genetic fund of agricultural crop varieties, in particular, of agricultural animals and making agricultural land more productive. The document addresses agricultural sector production systems in an integrated way across the environment protection. It primarily provides for objectives for sustainable development. Namely, it aims for an assessment of the status and specifics of biological diversity, as the eternal value and overall property of mankind. In addition, it envisages revealing and liquidating the danger for existence of species and ecosystems as a result of an anthropogenic impact; using the state sovereign rights for its resources, especially for their unique objects, and responsibility for their conservation; identification of the traditional dependence of local population on conservation and rational use of biological diversity including agrobiodiversity, for the purpose of satisfying the population needs in food, health, fuel-construction, raw material, business, technical, recreation, and other resources; identification of the optimum conditions for environmental rehabilitation and reducing greenhouse effects as a result of the increase of СО2 (carbon emission) while biological diversity conservation; development of a legal framework for exception and conservation of bio-resources, establishing a balance of economic and social ecological benefits while non-exhaustive use of biological resources at the regional, national, and local levels; reduction of the dangers for and ensuring conservation of biological diversity; improvement of the coordination system for activities regarding the biological diversity issues; ecological reconstruction and rehabilitation of infringed ecosystems; and providing for the local population and public non-governmental organizations awareness of the biological diversity conservation and balanced use issues. In the area of disaster preparedness, the document provides for improving forest protection including protection from fires on the basis of introducing distance methods and aviation protection. The document notes that it is necessary to attract the non-governmental organisations on development of the legal and normative-methodological base of the conservation and balanced use of the biological diversity; development and execution of the program on protection and reproduction of the fauna and flora species, which are endangered by vanishing, and expansion of the Specially protected natural territories; preparation of researches and introduction of the ecological safe economic methods in practice; and implementation of the ecological propaganda and population education. For the successful implementation of the National Action Plan for conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, its close interaction with the other National Programmes and International Conventions and Agreements is envisaged.
Kazakhstan · 1999-01-01