Sustainable management planning for St Helena's National Conservation Areas
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Darwin Plus
VALUE £344,345
WHERE St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Summary
St Helena’s iconic, and highly endemic, biodiversity is of international importance. The Island’s ‘nature’ National Conservation Areas (NCA), cover 38% of the island, helping protect the 502 endemic, and 38 globally threatened native species. To secure the legal status of the NCAs, 13 sustainable-use NCA management plans, analytical tools and framework to monitor their effectiveness will be developed. Key activities include; reviewing and collecting data and information, identifying knowledge gaps, stakeholder engagement, indicator
development, drafting Management Plans and capacity building.
Biodiversity monitoring efforts aimed at identifying the migration patterns of Endangered sea turtles highlight the urgent need for global conservation.
