Status: Inactive
Operational Plan: 2010
This project has assisted the Parties in strengthening their continental capacities and knowledge baseline to conserve priority species and habitats in a region of high ecological significance in North America.
The year 2009 represented the culmination of the B2B pilot and related marine NACAPs under the auspices of the CEC.
The purpose of this project is to assist the Parties in fulfilling their commitment to better conserve, protect and enhance the North American environment, specifically by completing the CEC’s support for pilot projects that effectively demonstrate the benefits of trinational collaboration, and that can be replicated in other regions.
Specifically this project is aimed at:
The Plan for North American Cooperation for the Conservation of Biodiversity was endorsed by the CEC Council in 2003. Holistic in design, the Biodiversity Strategy was intended to steward trinational efforts to conserve species and spaces and deal with common threats by strengthening local capacity, and using economic and market instruments in regions of ecological significance and conservation sites, like the Baja California to Bering (B2B) marine region.
The B2B initiative and the related marine North American Conservation Action Plans (NACAPs) have demonstrated pilot implementation of the Biodiversity Strategy and a framework for cooperation.
In 2009, the CEC published the Marine Ecoregions of North America.
This project has assisted the Parties in strengthening their continental capacities and knowledge baseline to conserve priority species and habitats in a region of high ecological significance in North America.
Key activities of this project in 2010 include:
The expected outcomes of the project include: