GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR PLANT CONSERVATION: ANALYSIS AND LINKS WITH THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

1. This document has been prepared by the Secretariat. 2. Decision 12.12 calls on the Plants Committee to analyse in detail the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) adopted at the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and links with its activities and collaborations, especially regarding GSPC’s target XI ‘No species of wild flora endangered by international trade’. 3. At the 13th meeting of the Plants Committee (PC13, Geneva, 2003) an informal working group was established to consider ways in which the Plants Committee could assist in the implementation of the CBD Global Strategy for Plant Conservation. The working group comprised the regional representative of Oceania and the observers from Austria, Mexico, FFI (Chairman), IUCN and UNEP-WCMC. 4. The working group noted that CITES has been identified as the lead agency for target XI of the CBD GSPC and began considering the extent to which CITES can contribute to this target. The group also noted the ways that the work of CITES is contributing, at least in part, to many additional targets of the GSPC. It was recognized that there are other mechanisms than CITES for preventing the threat to species from excessive levels of international trade. However it was felt that in order to mee