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Important Plant Areas in international conservation

The Important Plant Area (IPA) programme is intended to inform and underpin existing international, regional and national conservation programmes and legislation. Ultimately we hope that IPAs will act as a benchmark for determining whether the strongest protection, under any existing legislation, is being afforded to the most important sites for plants.

IPAs contribute to the following Global and European agreements and initiatives:

• The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
• The CBD Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
• The Pan European ‘Environment for Europe’ Process (PEBLDS, PEEN, High Nature Value Farmland, the Aarhus Convention)
• The RAMSAR Convention
• The European Strategy for Plant Conservation
• The EU Habitats & Species Directive, Natura 2000 network,
• Water Framework Initiative
• The Bern Convention & Emerald Network