Celebrating 25 Years of Action for Biodiversity

[ ] ii Acknowledgements Thanks goes out to all of the contributors for their support in bringing this project to completion. This book would not have been possible without the generous financial con- tribution from the Secretariat of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Cover photographs by courtesy of (in alphabetical order): Alex Bartok on flickr Alex Guillaume on Unsplash Ermin Maši, Instagram contest Ethan Weil on Unsplash Geran de Klerk on Unsplash Mahabubur Rahman, Instagram contest Mateusz Bański, CBD Mathias Appel on flickr Pablo R. Bedrossian, Instagram contest Pete on flickr Shutterstock Thaths on flickr Thewaspfactory on flickr Thinkstock UNDP Generation of content for the country pages The contents on the country pages were generated from submissions from Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as from information contained in the national reports submitted to the Secretariat. The process that was undertaken for this is outlined below: Notification (2017–144) (www.cbd.int/doc/notifica- tions/2017/ntf-2017-144-cbd-en.pdf) was issued on 21 De- cember 2017, inviting Parties to submit case studies of their national achievements and successes under the Convention on Biological Diversity for inclusion in a commemorative publication for the 25th anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention. A follow up call for submissions was sent via email on 16 February to all National Focal points, reminding them to send the case studies no later than 2 April 2018. Notification (2018–052) (www.cbd.int/doc/notifica- tions/2018/ntf-2018-052-case-studies-en.pdf) was issued on 5 June 2018 requesting Parties that have not yet submit- ted their information to do so no later than 21 June 2018. The Notification also stated that the Secretariat reserved the right to use information found in the National Report in the event that a case study was not submitted. Accordingly, the Secretariat drafted text for the outstand- ing cases studies based on information contained in the National Reports. These case studies were sent to National Focal points by email on 4 September 2018 with a request for a reply by 10 September 2018. Absent a reply, the cases were published as is.