ASEAN Heritage Parks
The Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Heritage Parks are representative of efforts to conserve areas of particular biodiversity importance or exceptional uniqueness throughout ASEAN member states. The ASEAN Ministers of Environment cooperatively signed the ASEAN Declaration on Heritage Parks on 18 December 2003. The ASEAN Member Countries agreed that
"common cooperation is necessary to conserve and manage the AHP for the development and implementation of regional conservation and management action plans as well as regional mechanisms complementary to national efforts to implement conservation measures."[1]
The ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) serves as the secretariat of the ASEAN Heritage Parks Programme and is responsible for reviewing the following principles:[2]
- Maintenance of the essential ecological processes and life-support systems;
- Preservation of genetic diversity;
- Maintenance of species diversity of plants and animals within their natural habitat;
- Ensure sustainable utilization of resources; and
- Provision of opportunities for outdoor recreation, tourism, education and research to make people recognize the importance of natural resources.
37 ASEAN Heritage Parks have been designated since the last inscription in November 2015. 4 sites are designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Kinabalu National Park of Malaysia, Lorentz National Park of Indonesia, Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park of the Philippines, and Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary of the Philippines.
List
See also
- ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- Biodiversity
- Protected area
- World Heritage Site
External links
References
- ↑ Regional Action Plan for ASEAN Heritage Parks and Protected Areas (ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, 2008) pp. 5, accessed 11, May 2011
- ↑ "ASEAN Heritage Parks". biodiversitya-z.org.
- ↑ "ASEAN Heritage Parks". aseanbiodiversity.org.
- ↑ "ASEAN Heritage Parks". aseanbiodiversity.org.