NATUREPARIF

Regional Agency for Biodiversity in Île-de-France

Maxime ZUCCA

CEPA Fair Hyderabad

Natureparif : Paris-Île-de-France region

An original governance initiative

Who?

Why?

To improve and share knowledge

To evaluate regional policies

To support public and private sector

To include biodiversity in land-use

planing

Barcelona, 6 october 2008, p 10

How ?

Setting up a Regional Biodiversity Observatory

Associating and sharing the know-how of

stakeholders from local to global

Raising awarness, educating, training & informing

Barcelona, 6 october 2008, p 11

President

Stakeholders forum Department

Communication and education Department

Observatory Department

Direction

Administrative Board

A team of 20 people Barcelona, 6 october 2008, p 12

Stakeholders forum

Sharing experiences

Editing technical guides

Index zero pesticides

Limites départementales

Zéro pesticide

Zéro pesticide sauf espaces à contraintes

Réduction engagée

Usage habituel

Non renseigné

• Ecological label for green spaces

• Objectives for 2013 : 100 sites with label

EcoJardin Label

Competition French Capital of biodiversity

Pôle Forum des Acteurs

Promote biodiversity among local governement

54 local governements in 2012

Communication

Publics conferences

Pedagogical tools

Observatory of biodiversity

Observatories : Increase kwoledge of biodiversity in Île-de-France

Organizing Surveys, Supporting Citizen Sciences

Participation to regional development schemes

Naturalists Meetings Île-de-France

Edition of Regional Red Lists

Powerful communication tool

• Alert general public about biodiversity

• Assessment useful for Policy-making

Agricultural practices have an important responsability in the

decline or the regional extinction of species

50 % of arable-weed flora extinct

Birds : 6 extinctions on 10

They constitute 43 %

of endangered

species

Red Lists are not only a list !

They allow :

- A Functional assessment of the threats to biodiversity

- An approach based on habitats

- A basis for Status revision

-A contextualisation of local threats vs national/supranational

To build Red Lists : data needed on species

trends !