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Barbados’ two-decade-old Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan has been updated, given Cabinet’s nod, and should go before Parliament soon.That disclosure came on Wednesday from Assistant Project Coordinator in the Biodiversity Unit of the Ministry of the Environment Rohann Payne during the launch of a new Clean and Green recreational site in Mount Standfast Gardens, St James.He said the last plan laid in Parliament in 2002 was outdated and officials had formulated a new one to ensure that the island’s plants, animals, and ecosystems are conserved, protected, and enhanced and that progress is tracked using measurable targets, in keeping with its United Nations (UN) obligations.“As you can imagine, what was relevant in 2022 would no longer be relevant now and, as such, [my unit] has been working for the past four to five years to upgrade that strategy. We recently had it endorsed by the Cabinet, so in the very near future we will be laying an updated Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan in Parliament, and we will begin to roll out some general information,” Payne disclosed.

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