Mainstreaming biodiversity management efforts for environmental sustainability
The Med Biodiversity Protection Community/MBPC ("PANACeA2") is a horizontal project focusing on objective “maintaining biodiversity and natural ecosystems through strengthening the management and networking of protected areas”. It builds on achievements to increase the impact of modular projects’ towards common identified targets and links through:1) Synthesizing and tranferring outcomes on ecosystem protection efforts;2) Engaging a stakeholders’ community & transferring knowledge beyond the community and the project´s lifetime,3) Enhancing the communication & dissemination strategy,4) Developing the long term capitalization tool ensuring evidence based policy enforcement.The activities ensure an active community of Mediterranean actors meant to overcome sectoral borders by integrating knowledge, allowing a better informed multilevel decision-making and management of biodiversity.The MBPC facilitates multisectoral dialogue with the scientific community to ensure an effective policy-management-science interface in the Mediterranean related to biodiversity protection and sustainable development. It pursues the long term strategic goal of the Interreg MED programme by reaching beyond EU Member States into the whole Mediterranean basin. It aims to feed EU, UNEP/MAP Barcelona Convention and CBD policies linked to the protection of natural resources for sustainable development in Mediterranean protected areas and key ecological function units and ecosystems.