Demonstration of Estuarine Biodiversity Conservation Restauration and Protected Area Networking in China (FSP)

About this project

The goal of the proposed project is to improve on existing efforts to conserve biodiversity in China?s major estuarine ecosystems. The Project?s specific objective is to develop a series of ?best practices? based on experience derived from project supported field activities focusing on the creation of marine protected area networks (MPA) and wetland restoration in the Yellow and Pearl River Estuaries, two of China?s most important estuarine ecosystems. This would be achieved through: (i) strengthening of individual MPAs to better achieve their conservation objectives; (ii) creation of new MPAs where gap analysis indicates that examples of critical habitats and species remain outside of conservation protection; (iii) promotion of the establishment of MPA networks among existing protected areas; (iv) restoration of degraded wetlands habitats; (v) addressing policy gaps/failures to reinforce government efforts to create and conserve estuarine ecosystems; (vi) identification and mitigation of one or more explicit threats to the respective estuarine ecosystems; (vii) building institutional capacity; (viii) promotion of increased public awareness of the significance of biodiversity resources in these deltaic systems and the role MPAs and MPA networks play in its conservation; and (ix) the development and dissemination of a series of ?best practices.?

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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) · Multilateral

Countries

China

Sectors

Biodiversity

Focus

Biodiversity · Also contributes

Funded by

GEF (FAO) - Global Environment Facility (through FAO)

Implemented by

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Published by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 30 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-41301-609231.

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