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Conserve and use biological resources sustainably and avoid or minimize adverse impacts on biological diversity in terrestrial areas, aquatic areas and wetlands, and marine and coastal areas

Government will, amongst other things:

    streamline and strengthen or introduce new policies, legislation, incentives and disincentives to avoid or minimize the adverse effects of human activities on biodiversity;
    support the incorporation of IEM principles and appropriate environmental management procedures into all planning controls and legislation;
    require the adoption and effective implementation and enforcement of appropriate regulations concerning the control of activities which may have a detrimental effect on the environment;
    identify and remove, where possible, incentives that encourage loss of biodiversity;
    maintain, adjust, or develop new financial and other incentives that support the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity;
    undertake research and develop and apply methods and technologies aimed at removing or reducing the adverse impacts of harmful activities on biodiversity and improving the management of such areas;
    restore and rehabilitate degraded ecosystems where practical and where this will make a significant contribution to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity (see objective 1.5);
    discourage development in areas which biodiversity and ecological function would be adversely affected (see objective 1.1);
    negotiate and liaise with neighbouring countries to maximize commonalities and minimize conflicts between policies, legislation and practices relating to cross-border areas such as mountain ranges, water catchments, marine and coastal regions, as well as areas required for animal migration.