Why do conservation programs fail?

The Convention on Biological Diversity is a significant agreement when almost all countries are parties to it, but the convention binds countries only when the agreements in it overlap with the international legal system. States tend to implement agreements only when they overlap laws and unfortunately the overlap is lacking

In the published position paper of the "Convention on Biological Diversity" of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, an action plan for the next decade is presented for the purpose of preserving biological diversity.

It's no secret that the world's wildlife is in dire straits: the heat wave in the northwest Pacific Ocean killed more than a billion sea creatures, the fires in Australia killed about three billion animals according to a conservative estimate, and about a million species are facing extinction.

Despite the alarming numbers, there is no real global commitment to act to prevent the loss of a variety of species. The new position paper is designed to spur action on a global scale so that by 2050 a situation will be implemented in which "we live in perfect harmony with the natural environment".

However, in order to implement the plan in its current form, and to ensure and preserve the wonders of the world's nature, there is a need for legal commitments from countries, a situation that does not exist and therefore there is a danger of failure.

The Convention on Biological Diversity is a significant agreement when almost all countries are parties to it, but the convention binds countries only when the agreements in it overlap with the international legal system. States tend to implement agreements when they overlap laws and unfortunately the overlap is lacking.

The experience in the last decade in which a project called "Aichi Targets" was supposed to take place. According to the project, the countries were supposed to halve the loss of habitat and stop the extinction. The venture failed.

In the new position paper, the extinction that was the main point in the "Ichi target" has given way to pollution in its forms, including plastic.

There are those who compare the new position paper to the Paris Agreement, which was designed to mitigate global warming, but the comparison is wrong since the Paris Agreement came as a continuation of a legal commitment in the Kyoto Protocol. Also in the Paris Agreement there were obligations to provide emissions with mandatory annual reporting. Failure to comply with the obligation constitutes a violation of international law, while in the Convention on Biological Diversity there are indeed discussions on a legal obligation, but at this stage there is no set date and therefore the obligation has no value.

In order to implement the agreement and the plan in the position paper, in addition to the agreements, a series of actions are needed:
- Measures that will prevent harm to animals for economic, social and traditional reasons
- Implementation of the plan to minimize threats to diversity such as collecting and trading animals, preserving habitats and preventing pollution
 - It is necessary to conjure the attitude according to it in order to do good to people
- Constant economic growth. The presented goals cannot be realized without addressing the economic reasons that cause threats such as: materialism, wasteful production and unnecessary consumption.
- Reference to "indigenous information" Indigenous peoples' knowledge. From a scientific point of view that will bring the voice of the natives for the preservation and sustainable development of the areas in which they live, despite a wide range of evidence that shows the environmental advantage of "land management" by natives, this is not always taken into account and the result is damage to environmental systems.

Because of the development of global transportation and the unprecedented way in which people and goods move, it is important to create a multi-system economic and social cooperation that will also integrate and link information systems to environmental systems. This is because an action on one side of the world may affect the entire environment (biodiversity impacts) over vast distances.

A significant part of what is written above is not emphasized in the draft of the plan. For example, the global demand for palm oil that causes deforestation is neither highlighted nor tangible to consumers. The lack of emphasis makes it difficult to stop the creation of equatorial forests.

At the end of August there will be a virtual conference that will deal with the program. An actual conference that was supposed to take place in China will be postponed to 2022. Until then, the participants have time to respond to the plan, so for example it is appropriate to strengthen ties with bodies such as the "UN's Sustainable Development Goals" which recognizes the contribution of biodiversity to the project. So is the initiative for food security which echoes from "Sustainable Development Goal 2" and which aspires to "zero hunger" (Sustainable Development Goal 2).

The plan also changes the terminology and instead of writing "environmental services" they will write "Nature's Contribution to People" and thus gives a higher value to nature.

All is well and good except that without defined and binding goals, what will cause change this time? Another series of goals to save biodiversity that will not be implemented by 2030 constitutes an unacceptable scenario. What's more, some of the goals aimed at by the program constitute stepping on the spot without change. The path leading to general extinction can be changed. To this end, there is a need for urgent and immediate action directed and agreed upon by all that will cause a change of attitude and allow prosperity for both nature and people.

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