Iraq’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (2015-2020).

This cross-cutting sectoral Strategy and Action Plan represents a national guiding framework for biodiversity conservation, with particular regard to a participatory approach that allows the actors for biodiversity in Iraq to work in partnership. It sets out priorities to focus on in the 5-year period 2015 – 2020. The main concepts at the basis of the Strategy are human life, awareness, sustainability and knowledge, as summarized in the Vision according to which ‘By 2050 Iraq has spread the knowledge and the awareness about biodiversity importance and uses its natural resources sustainably, for a better life for present and future generations’. Consequently, the Mission is to achieve better living conditions for Iraqi population by using and valuing biodiversity in a sustainable way. Main target groups of this NBSAP are the rural communities and those people living and depending on natural resources, with a particular reference to the tribal communities where biodiversity plays a role in the ethical, religious and social values.