2.1.3

Principle 2: Sustainable use of biodiversity

Criteria	Guidance	Evidence & Scoring	Importance & Applicability
Criteria 2.1: Criteria 2.1: Practices are adopted to ensure sustainable use of the species cultivated or wild collected, and to prevent or mitigate negative impact on other species 2.1.3 In protected areas where cultivation and wild collection activities are allowed, such activities take place in line with official management plans.	There are zones in some protected areas where human activities - including wild collection, cultivation and related activities - are allowed. Management plans for those areas set the conditions under which those activities can be conducted. The OaS and the Field operators shall show awareness of the existence of those management plans and show evidence that they are conducting farming, wild collection and related activities in line with the conditions set in the plans, when activities are conducted in those areas. Identification of protected areas and management plans can be done by using recognised classifications and mapping tools or by using existing reports and local knowledge. UEBT provides a list of tools to identify protected areas that can be used for this purpose. OaS and field operators are responsible for checking the presence of those areas, management plans and complying with them while conducting cultivation, wild collection and related activities there. In the case of small farmers or individual pickers, farmer/pickers groups or the OaS are in charge of checking the presence of those areas, management plans and ensuring activities are implemented according to the plans.	DOCUMENTATION Documents showing authorisation to operate in an area can be used as evidence of compliance. Description of cultivation and wild collection practices and comparisons with conditions in the management plans can be used as evidence for compliance or non-compliance. Formal procedures for violation of management plans can be used as evidence for non-compliance. INTERVIEWS Conversations with relevant informants about the status of the area used for cultivation and wild collection, the management plans and the authorised practices can be used as evidence for compliance or non-compliance. OBSERVATION Witnessing that cultivation and wild collection is done according to, or in violation of, the management plans for the areas can be used as evidence for compliance or non-compliance, respectively. Scoring guidance 0 - Cultivation, wild collection and related activities conducted in protected areas are not in line with official management plans for those areas 1 - There is knowledge of the management plans for protected areas where cultivation, wild collection and related activities are conducted but conditions set in those plans are not fulfilled 2 - Cultivation, wild collection and related activities are being adjusted to comply with management plans, and there are still some minor adjustments to be introduced to ensure full compliance 3 - Cultivation, wild collection and other related activities are implemented in line with official management plans N/A – in the justification, please explain why Score 2 to be reached by second year	Importance Critical stepwise Applicability Cultivation & wild collection Field operators OaS

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Importance & Applicability

Criteria 2.1: Criteria 2.1: Practices are adopted to ensure sustainable use of the species cultivated or wild collected, and to prevent or mitigate negative impact on other species

2.1.3

In protected areas where cultivation and wild collection activities are allowed, such activities take place in line with official management plans.

There are zones in some protected areas where human activities - including wild collection, cultivation and related activities - are allowed. Management plans for those areas set the conditions under which those activities can be conducted. The OaS and the Field operators shall show awareness of the existence of those management plans and show evidence that they are conducting farming, wild collection and related activities in line with the conditions set in the plans, when activities are conducted in those areas. Identification of protected areas and management plans can be done by using recognised classifications and mapping tools or by using existing reports and local knowledge. UEBT provides a list of tools to identify protected areas that can be used for this purpose. OaS and field operators are responsible for checking the presence of those areas, management plans and complying with them while conducting cultivation, wild collection and related activities there. In the case of small farmers or individual pickers, farmer/pickers groups or the OaS are in charge of checking the presence of those areas, management plans and ensuring activities are implemented according to the plans.

DOCUMENTATION

Documents showing authorisation to operate in an area can be used as evidence of compliance. Description of cultivation and wild collection practices and comparisons with conditions in the management plans can be used as evidence for compliance or non-compliance. Formal procedures for violation of management plans can be used as evidence for non-compliance.

INTERVIEWS

Conversations with relevant informants about the status of the area used for cultivation and wild collection, the management plans and the authorised practices can be used as evidence for compliance or non-compliance.

OBSERVATION

Witnessing that cultivation and wild collection is done according to, or in violation of, the management plans for the areas can be used as evidence for compliance or non-compliance, respectively.

Scoring guidance

0 - Cultivation, wild collection and related activities conducted in protected areas are not in line with official management plans for those areas
1 - There is knowledge of the management plans for protected areas where cultivation, wild collection and related activities are conducted but conditions set in those plans are not fulfilled
2 - Cultivation, wild collection and related activities are being adjusted to comply with management plans, and there are still some minor adjustments to be introduced to ensure full compliance
3 - Cultivation, wild collection and other related activities are implemented in line with official management plans

N/A – in the justification, please explain why

Score 2 to be reached by second year

Importance
Critical stepwise

Applicability

Cultivation & wild collection

Field operators

OaS

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Principle 2: Sustainable use of biodiversity

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