In response to the urgent need to address the issue of
biodiversity loss, nearly 200 governments adopted the Strategic
Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 at the Convention on Biological
diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan, in October 2010. The vision
of this strategic plan is a world of “Living in harmony with
nature” where “By 2050, biodiversity is valued, conserved,
restored and wisely used, maintaining ecosystem services,
sustaining a healthy planet and delivering benefits essential
for all people.” The mission of the Strategic Plan is to “take
effective and urgent action to halt the loss of biodiversity in
order to ensure that by 2020 ecosystems are resilient and
continue to provide essential services, thereby securing the
planet’s variety of life, and contributing to human well-being,
and poverty eradication. In Nagoya, the decade 2011-2020 was
also declared the Decade of Biodiversity. The strategic plan
includes a shared vision, a mission, and 20 targets organized
under five strategic goals, to inspire broa