National strategies to Conserve biological diversity

2.1. National strategies to Conserve biological diversity

By way of fulfilling its international obligations, the Republic of Belarus developed the draft National Strategy and Action Plan of Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity. These documents were approved by Resolution #789 of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated 26 June 1997. The National Strategy of Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Diversity provides for a number of priority environmental measures, including: conducting national study and assessment of biodiversity status; creating conditions for the restoration of ecosystems and endangered biological species; expanding the system of protected areas to conserve biological diversity; adopting legislative framework for the protection of endangered species. The latter measure is of particular interest since it is unprecedented in the national legislative history of the Russian Federation, Belarus and Ukraine. In Ukraine, Resolution #439 of the Cabinet of Ministers of 12 May 1997 approved the Concept of Biodiversity Conservation in Ukraine. In the Russian Federation, the National Strategy of Conserving Biological Diversity as part of the National Strategy of Sustainable Development was elaborated in 2002.

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