Another example is the ongoing project “Catalyzing Sustainability of Thailand’s Protected Area System”, which was developed by the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plants, with funding support from the Global Environment Facilities. The project’s objective is to overcome barriers to sustainability of Thailand’s Protected Area system. The Thai Cabinet approved the budget for the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources to implement works regarding protection and conservation of island, marine and coastal biodiversity, in the year 2011, in order to achieve obligations under the CBD. Thailand has set the ambitious target to increase the national forest cover from 30 per cent in 2006 up to 40 per cent by 2020. The constant effort on forest and protection as well as reforestation programmes through action and implementation plan by promoting people participation is one of the key successes in our efforts to reach our targets. I would like to highlight that it is important to bring the business sector into biodiversity conservation and sustainable use. The business sector is one of the most important stakeholders, which has major impacts and contributions to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use. At present, at least 67 companies have implemented policy to raise public awareness and support the conservation and restoration of biodiversity. In this Forum, best business practices that link business and community partnership in undertaking biodiversity conservation activities from various Asian countries will be presented, capacity building and regional support needs, and follow-up action plans will be identified, based on a strong participatory approach that will support participants to define requirements and plans according to their current situation and needs, which will have much contribution to the advancement of biodiversity conservation and sustainable use in the future. Thank you. ENCOURAGING PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN BUSINESS AND COMMUNITIES FOR BIODIVERSITY xix
In Celebration of His Majesty the King of Thailand’s 84th Birthday Anniversary
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