More and more farmers, collectors and companies are implementing actions to regenerate biodiversity. They are achieving some success, but it is difficult to obtain reliable data to plan for additional actions or to communicate impact.
The Biodiversity Action Plan Monitoring Tool (BAP-Monitor) is an attempt to fill this gap. It complements work already underway by several companies to develop and implement Biodiversity Action Plans (BAPs) in farms, wild collection sites and surrounding areas.
The BAP-Monitor is designed to be straightforward and flexible. It assesses achievements in biodiversity promotion on two different levels: performance and impact. Overall, it provides examples of targets, measures and methods for gathering data, shows progress through a simple scoring system and generates statistics and graphics.
The monitoring tool was developed as part of the Private Business Action for Biodiversity (PBAB) project, which is implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) as part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI). Global Nature Fund and UEBT collaborated in the development of the tool.
Source:
European Commission, Environment Newsroom