CONVENTION ON MIGRATORY SPECIES - ECOLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY

Encourages Parties and invites others, working with all relevant stakeholders in national and local government authorities, local communities, the private and other sectors, to intensify efforts to address threats to the conservation status of migratory species and the integrity of their habitats, which are manifested as threats to connectivity and ecological integrity, including barriers to migra. [...] Urges Parties and other Range States and partners to make full use of all existing complementary tools and mechanisms for the identification, designation and effective management of critical sites and site networks for migratory species and populations, including through further inscription of UNESCO World Heritage Sites (including serial transnational) and for migratory waterbirds and other migra. [...] Requests the Secretariat to bring this Resolution to the attention of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction, the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, and in relation to relevant nominations of World Heritag. [...] Further requests the Secretariat, subject to availability of resources, to work with Parties and the Scientific Council and other international and regional organizations, including the Convention on Biological Diversity as well as other relevant stakeholders, in promoting the protection, conservation, restoration and effective management of critical sites and ecological networks; 25. [...] Requests the Secretariat to report to the Conference of the Parties at each of its ordinary meetings on the progress of implementation of this Resolution; and 30.