National Biodiversity Strategic Action Plan 2016-2020.

The National Biodiversity Strategic Action Plan is a planning instrument with a multi-sectoral approach, relating to the period 2016-2020, whose vision is a unified, vibrant and informed Solomon Island’s society, embodied with an environmental culture, where unique and endemic biodiversity remain part of the natural heritages and cultural identities, and where, ecosystem services continue to prevail, providing for the economic, social, spiritual and intellectual development for its people. The plan is based upon the following principles: intergenerational equity; precautionary; participation and inclusiveness; ecosystem approach; accountability and transparency. Five Strategic Goals are set out: A) Addressing the underlying causes of the loss of biodiversity by effectively and efficiently delivering of our mandates and developing of incentives and subsidies to improve and enhance biodiversity management; B) Reduce the direct and indirect pressures on biodiversity through ecosystem based management approach; C) Enhancing and promoting of protection and restoration of biodiversity to safeguard ecosystems, native species and genetic diversity; D) Enhancing the equitable sharing of benefits derived from biodiversity, and safeguarding traditional knowledge associated with biodiversity uses for the benefit of all.