Luanda - The Angolan Executive is working on the review of the National Biodiversity Strategy 2019/2025, to extend its duration, until 2050, the Minister of the Environment, Ana Paula de Carvalho said on Thursday.
The minister was speaking to the press, at the end of an audience that the Vice-President of the Republic, Esperança da Costa, granted to the global director of Sustainable Finance, Land Protection, Freshwaters and Oceans at The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Melissa Garvey.
She stated that the aim of this review is to ensure the continuity of the projects contained in this strategy, which has already been implemented for five years.
According to the minister, ongoing projects for the conservation of biodiversity are still in an embryonic phase and require financing.
'We have a National Biodiversity Strategy, which, by the way, ends in 2025, but we are already reviewing it. We already have a level of implementation, but we need to continue, at least until 2050', she expressed.
The National Strategy and Action Plan for Biodiversity were formulated to serve as an integrated strategic framework within which the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity can be organized and coordinated over a seven-year period (2019-2025).
He stated that work is currently being done with the Global Nature Conservancy (TNC) for the Protection of the Oceans, with the participation of the Ministries of Planning and Finance.
He explained that ongoing projects have already reached three percent of the terrestrial conservation area, but new areas are being prepared in the provinces of Uíge (Serra do Pingano), Cuanza-Sul (Morro do Cumbira) and the province of Huambo (Morro do Moco ).
Paula de Carvalho also highlighted the creation of a marine conservation area, underway in the province of Namibe.
She stressed that the projects are awaiting financing from the Global Nature Conservancy (TNC), in a combination of efforts with the Ministry of Finance, so that they can be completed by February of next year.
She said that a survey of water resources in the provinces of Moxico and Cuando Cubango is also underway.
The meeting served for the TNC to publicize ongoing initiatives and recent progress made by Angola, address collaboration opportunities, share information and priorities, with emphasis on facilitating sustainable financing mechanisms for nature conservation.
The global director of Sustainable Finance, Protection of Land, Freshwater and Oceans at the Nature Conservancy said it is necessary for Angola, as well as other countries, to have the opportunity to finance biodiversity conservation activities or projects, for the good of populations and support for communities.
Melissa Garvey stated that her organization works with donations and is also linked to the North American Government in terms of biodiversity conservation and community development.
Present in more than 70 countries, Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a global non-profit environmental organization founded in 1971, which aims to raise awareness in societies about the need to prosper without putting unsustainable pressure on nature, protecting land and waters.
In Angola, it is present in the province of Cuando Cubango, close to communities, aiming at conservation and intelligent and sustainable development. FMA/ART/DOJ
