Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework 

Target 4: Halt Species Extinction, Protect Genetic Diversity, and Manage Human-Wildlife Conflicts

Ensure urgent management actions to halt human induced extinction of known threatened species and for the recovery and conservation of species, in particular threatened species, to significantly reduce extinction risk, as well as to maintain and restore the genetic diversity within and between populations of native, wild and domesticated species to maintain their adaptive potential, including through in situ and ex situ conservation and sustainable management practices, and effectively manage human-wildlife interactions to minimize human-wildlife conflict for coexistence.

Read more about the target with the Convention on Biological Diversity’s guidance notes: https://www.cbd.int/gbf/targets/4

The Global Species Action Plan (GSAP) has been developed to support implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) by setting out the key strategic interventions and actions required to achieve successful outcomes for the conservation and sustainable use of species in the GBF Mission, Goals, and Targets. The GSAP is linked to an online toolkit of resources, training support, and technical guidance to assist governments and other stakeholders to conserve and manage native wild species effectively and to ensure they and their products are used sustainably, legally, and equitably. See the toolkit: https://gsapskills.org/

Reverse the Red, as part of the World Species Congress hosted in May of 2024, coordinated a series of 30 minute panels on each of the associated actions for Target 4 as part of the GSAP. Please find those recordings, as well as the recordings of an ongoing series of follow up webinars, below.

4.2. Develop and implement a recovery plan (single species, multi-species, site-based, or threat-based) for all species that require one.

Follow up conversation: https://youtube.com/live/8Go5BJx9NVM

4.4. Maintain or establish coordinated ex-situ breeding or propagation programmes for all species that require them

4.5. Minimise loss of genetic diversity across all threatened species and retain at least 95% gene diversity in species where it is already depleted

4.6. Reduce and manage human-wildlife conflict and its drivers through a holistic, cross-sectoral approach

4.7. Determine factors governing species conservation success