National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan of DPR Korea 2007.

This National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) of DPR Korea is a cross-sectoral policy document. The long-term objectives of the national biodiversity strategy are: 1.to enhance the conservative ability of protected areas including nature reserves and to establish protected area networks; 2.to make efforts to conserve ecosystem, species and genetic resources and establish the system for sustainable use of biodiversity components. The immediate objectives are: 1. to restore degraded ecosystems, halt the deterioration of ecological environment, reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity components and improve the whole ecological environment; 2. to improve the management of nature reserves for raising the effectiveness of the system; 3. to increase bio-productivity and service function of ecosystem and establish the system for the sustainable use of bio-resources.