 Asignatura: Historia de los países de habla inglesa / History of english-speaking countries. ✏ Título: Gender equality and women's empowerment  #ODS 15: vida de ecosistemas terrestres / #SDG 5: Life on land By: Claudia Sanchez Cazallas

1. LIFE
ON
LAND
Claudia Sánchez Cazallas – 1ºB
IRELAND’S

2. AIMS
To protect, restore and
promote sustainable
use of terrestrial
ecosystems,
sustainably manage
forests, combat
desertification, halt
and reverse land
degradation and halt
biodiversity loss.

3. WHY IS BIODIVERSITY IMPORTANT?
•Biodiversity underpins the healthy functioning of ecosystems that provides a
multitude of benefits (also known as ecosystem services) to humanity, such as:
Regulation of
greenhouse
gases
Flood
control
Regulation of
water quality
Flood
production
Cultural
heritage

4. HABITATS IN IRELAND’S PROTECTED AREAS
•The National Biodiversity Plan (NBP) provides a framework to track and
monitor Ireland’s progress in relation to protection and promoting
biodiversity.
•According to the NBP 2017-2021, 91% of EU protected habitats in Ireland
have unfavourable conservation status.
Peatlands
Grasslands
Coastal
habitats
Lakes
Highligthted as habitat
types with unfavourable
conservation status

5. IN IRELAND:
Agriculture
Forestry
and
fisheries
Natural
system
modification
Mining
and
quarrying
Climate
change
Pollution
Invasive and
problematic
species
Threats contributing to
BIODIVERSITY
LOSS

6. WHAT SPECIES ARE IN TROUBLE IN IRELAND?
•Ireland’s Red List of Threatened Species identifies how
likely a species is to go extinct from the island of Ireland.
•According to the Red List:
Freshwater
fish
Non-marine
molluscs
Bees
Butterflies
Some of Ireland’s
most threatened
taxonomic groups

7. TARGETS
By 2020:
- Ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable
use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems
and their services in line with obligations under
international agreements.
- Promote the implementation of sustainable
management of all types of forests, halt deforestation,
restore degraded forests and increase afforestation and
reforestation globally.
- Protect and prevent the extinction of threatened
species.
- Introduce measures to prevent the introduction and
reduce the impact of invasive alien species on land
and water ecosystems and control or eradicate the
priority species.
- Integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into
national and local planning, development processes,
poverty reduction strategies and accounts.
By 2030:
- Combat desertification, restore
degraded land and soil, including land
affected by desertification, drought and
floods, and strive to achieve a land
degradation-neutral world.
- Ensure the conservation of mountain
ecosystems, including their biodiversity,
in order to enchance their capacity to
provide benefits that are essential for
sustainable development.

8. In 2007, National Biodiversity Data Centre (NBDC) was set
up by the Heritage Council as part of the efforts to protect
Ireland’s biodiversity.
A key objective of the NBDC is to support the production of
the National Parks and Wildlife Service’s Red Lists by the
development of a national database and identification of
conservation priorities.

9. BIBLIOGRAPHY
• https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/
• https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable
-development-goals/
• https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/memberstates/ir
eland
• https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics/sustainabl
edevelopmentgoals