1. BIODIVERSITY
EFT 1023
Current Issues, Law & Policy
and Organization
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2. Significant of
Biological Diversity

3. Economic importance
Food security
National biological heritage
Scientific skill, education & recreational
Environmental stability
Biosafety

4. Malaysia National Policy on Biological Diversity
1998, Kuala Lumpur

5. Malaysia National Policy on Biological
Biodiversity (MN
Vision
To transform Malaysia into a world centre of
excellence in conservation, research and
utilization of tropical biological diversity by the
year 2020

6. Policy Statement
To conserve Malaysia’s biological diversity and
to
ensure its components are utilized in a
sustainable manner
for
the continued progress and
socio-economic development of the nation

7. NPBD: Objectives
1. To optimized economic benefit from sustainable utilization of
biodiversity components
2. To ensure long-term food security
3. To maintain and improve environmental stability
4. To ensure preservation of nation’s unique biodiversity heritage
5. To enhance scientific knowledge and public awareness
6. To emphasize biosafety consideration in the development &
application of biotechnology

8. NPBD: 15 Strategies
1. Enhance sustainable utilization of biological
diversity components
2. Scientific knowledge base
3. Develop center of excellence for tropical
biological diversity
4. Strengthen institutional framework for
biological diversity
5. Expand and integrate conservation
programmes

9. NPBD: 15 Strategies
6. Ensure major sectoral planning &
development activities and programmes
consider about biological diversity
7. Enhance skill and capabilities
8. Encourage participation from private sector
9. Review legislation on biological needs
10. Minimize impacts of human activities

10. NPBD: 15 Strategies
11. Develop policy and regulations on biosafety
12. Increase public awareness
13. Promote international cooperation &
collaboration
14. Exchange of imformation
15. Establish funding

11. Laws in Malaysia
1. Fisheries Act 1985
2. Protection of Wildlife Act 1972
3. Environmental Quality Act 1974
4. Pesticides Act 1974
5. Plant Quarantine Act 1976
6. Land Conservation Act 1960
7. Aboriginal Act 1954
8. National Parks Act 1980

12. International Linkages
1. FAO
2. CBD
3. Langkawi Declaration
4. CITES
5. IUCN
6. RAMSAR
7. IPGRI

13. FAO
Food and Agriculture
Organization

14. Role of FAO
1. Upgrade the efficiency of the production & distribution of
food and agriculture products
2. Improve rural population conditions (freedom from hunger)
3. Specifically, FAO is responsible with:
• Collecting
• evaluating
• disseminating information
Concerning to nutrition, food, and agriculture and associated
sectors including fisheries, marine products & forestry
products

15. Convention on Biological
Diversity (CBD)
193 parties

16. Objectives of CBD
To ensure, encourage, promote and support:
1. Conservation of biological diversity
2. Sustainable utilization of biological diversity
3. Promoting fair & equitable sharing of the
benefits from utilization of genetic resources

17. Malaysia
• Ratified 24 June, 1994
• Malaysia must integrated into national policy
of the commitment under the agreement
• States over their biological resources and
their responsibility for conserving their
biological diversity and utilizing the biological
resources in a sustainable manner

18. Langkawi Declaration
• 21st October 1989
• Was issued in conjunction with
Commonwealth Heads of Government
Meeting CHOGM
• This declaration embrace environmental
issues including management of
environmental and natural resources

19. CITES
Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species of
Wildlife Fauna & Flora

20. CITES
• (1963)
• Member since 1978 (Malaysia)
• 177 Party (to date)
• CITES aims to ensure that international trade
in specimens of wild animals and plants does
not threaten their survival.

21. IUCN
International Union for
Conservation of Nature

22. IUCN
• Was founded in 1948
• World Conservation Union, the largest &
oldest of environmental organization
• The main mission for this union is to
CONSERVE biodiversity

23. Role of IUCN
To promote and enhance conservation and
stability at local and global by strengthen the
following disciplines:
a. Science research- experts
b. Action – Conservation projects
c. Influence – Legislation and policy

24. RAMSAR
Convention on Wetlands

25. RAMSAR
• Convention of Wetland of International (1971)
• Ramsar, Iran
• 10th November 1994 (Malaysia joined)
• Ramsar List of Wetlands of International
Importance

26. Ramsar: The mission
The conservation and wise use of all
wetlands through local, regional and national
actions
International cooperation to achieve sustainable
development around the world

27. IPGRI
International Plant Genetic Resource Institution
IPGRI
independent international scientific
organization operating under support of
Consultative Group on International Agriculture
Research (CGIAR)

28. IPGRI’s function
To lead the conservation and use of plant
genetic resources for the benefit of present and
future generations
IPGRI actively involved in partnership with
Organizations (research, training, technical
advise and financial support)

29. “Malaysia is an active participant of the
International Board for Plant Genetic
Resources Regional Committee for South-East
Asia (IBPGR/RECSEA). Through the
IBPGR/RECSEA, Malaysia has participated in a
highly successful cooperative programme
in plant genetic resources with Indonesia,
Papua New Guinea, Philippines and Thailand.
National research institutions like the
Malaysian Agricultural Research and
Development
Institute (MARDI), Rubber Research Institute of
Malaysia (RRIM) and the Palm Oil
Research Institute of Malaysia (PORIM) have
participated in this programme. The
IBPGR is now known as the International Plant
Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI).” Plant &
Genetic resouces BOOK

30. afifa@umk.edu.my