Environment

The report is divided into three parts. Part I covers the status, trends, threats to biodiversity and its implications for human well-being. Part II deals with the status of the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan in South Sudan including its implementation and mainstreaming of biodiversity while Part III presents progress that South Sudan has made towards achievement of the 2011-2020 Aichi Biodiversity targets and its contribution to the relevant 2015 Targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
South Sudan is the newest member of the Convention on Biological Diversity, having acceded to it only on 17 February 2014. It is also the youngest nation politically having gained its independence in 2011. Its effort to conserve biodiversity must be looked at in this light. It has also gone through a long period of war and insecurity
which has had a very negative impact on biodiversity in a manner that has not been experienced by many countries around the world.