The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation is a platform that gathers efforts from all the different levels-local, national, regional and global, in order to strengthen the needs for conservation and substantiality and implement steps toward the awareness and actions that should be made.[4]
Implementation
Sufficient human, technical and financial resources are contained within the strategy in order to prevent the slowing down of the program in case of limited funds and lack of training. Some of the implementation strategies include these involving a range of actors:
(i) International initiatives (e.g., international conventions, intergovernmental organizations, United Nations agencies, multilateral aid agencies);
(ii) Members of the Global Partnership for Plant Conservation;
(iii) Conservation and research organizations (including protected-area management boards, botanic gardens, gene banks, universities, research institutes, non-governmental organizations and networks of non-governmental organizations);
(iv) Communities and major groups (including indigenous and local communities, farmers, women, youth);
(v) Governments (central, regional, local authorities); and
The heart of the GSPC are five goals, expressed as a total of 16 targets. The five objectives and their 16 targets for 2020 are:[6]
Objective I: Plant diversity is well understood, documented and recognized
Target 1: An online flora of all known plants.
Target 2: An assessment of the conservation status of all known plant species, as far as possible, to guide conservation action.
Target 3: Information, research and associated outputs, and methods necessary to implement the Strategy developed and shared.
Objective II: Plant diversity is urgently and effectively conserved
Target 4: At least 15% of each ecological region or vegetation type secured through effective management and/or restoration.
Target 5: At least 75% of the most important areas for plant diversity of each ecological region protected with effective management in place for conserving plants and their genetic diversity.
Target 6: At least 75% of production lands in each sector managed sustainably, consistent with the conservation of plant diversity.
Target 7: At least 75% of known threatened plant species conserved in situ.
Target 8: At least 75% of threatened plant species in ex situ collections, preferably in the country of origin, and at least 20 per cent available for recovery and restoration programmes.
Target 9: 70% of the genetic diversity of crops including their wild relatives and other socio-economically valuable plant species conserved, while respecting, preserving and maintaining associated indigenous and local knowledge.
