Proposals of Russian
delegation to found permanent
biodiversity centres of the Caspian Sea
Permanent Biodiversity Centres should be founded in each
Caspian country.
The main tasks of the centres should include:
data acquisition, addition of data to the databases and
GIS suppport;
analysis of the information on the current status of the
biodiversity;
transformation and information on the biodiversity of
the Caspian sea transfer to decision makers and other stakeholders;
support of systems of information exchange with other
national permanent biodiversity centres of the Caspian Sea (preliminary work on solution
of legal issues and agreements at national and regional levels is required)
participation in support of common regional information
system in the Internet (possibly on CEP server in Baku).
Information activity of the permanent centres could be
reflected in their names (for instance, Biodiversity Information Centre).
To provide sustainable and reliable work of the
permanent centres it is necessary to have basic state financing (the principle of full
self support is unacceptable).
Permanent national centres should have equal status,
they should be coordinated by the permanent Biodiversity Council under the central CEP
office which will be established at Phase 2 of CEP).
Actual studies of the biodiversity (monitoring and
others) are requried in all Caspian states. They will be implemented according to the
National Strategy and Action Plans (considering the comments of the international
Council). It is necessary to develop mechanisms of submission of the results of the
studies to the permanent information centres.
Training of personnel is each country's objective. It
is possible to organise special international courses, for example, under the program of
the Caspian Floating University.
Organisation of the permanent centres should be approved
by the national coordinators. Further activity on the biodiversity protection should be
closely connected with the policy of improvement of bioresources management of the
Caspian.
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