Published date: 15 February 2019
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Contract summary
Industry
Natural resources management or conservation strategy planning services - 90712400
Environmental issues consultancy services - 90713000
Location of contract
Any region
Value of contract
£0
Procurement reference
WWFCF19/124
Published date
15 February 2019
Closing date
1 March 2019
Contract start date
1 April 2019
Contract end date
31 December 2019
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (below threshold)
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This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
WWF-UK seeks expressions of interest from suitably qualified organisations and individuals to conduct systematic conservation planning within China's Yangtze River basin with the ultimate aim of identifying gaps within the current Protected Area network as a priority for future restoration and/or protection. This includes facilitating WWF-UK, WWF-China and identified stakeholders through the entire process.
Globally, we may have met the 2020 ambition for the CBD Aichi Target of 17% of the global area of inland water to be protected, although there is uncertainty that all inland waters are well represented . However, freshwater biodiversity is continuing to rapidly decline at the global scale; the index of freshwater wildlife populations has fallen by 83% since 1970 and close to 30% of all freshwater species are considered to be under immediate threat of extinction . The lack of correlation between the global increase in protected areas and the continuing rapid decline in freshwater biodiversity has led conservationists to question the efficacy of protected areas as a tool for freshwater species conservation.
This project is aimed at investigating the factors necessary to create a national and/or basin scale network of freshwater protected areas in the Yangtze River Basin to achieve greater cumulative impact than can be achieved by the summing of individual protected areas, with the ultimate aim of reversing global declines in freshwater biodiversity. It is anticipated that this contract will involve running at least one workshop within the Yangzte Basin to work with stakeholders, including identification of evidence and ascertaining conservation values, developing and producing the MARXAN model and conducting all modelling work, ground-truthing outputs with stakeholders and providing final outputs and recommendations. Outputs from this work will support the delivery of WWF-China's HSBC Water Programme Wetland Goal as well as WWF's global work to address freshwater biodiversity declines by improving strategic decision making about freshwater protected areas.
To express interest in this opportunity please provide a short covering letter outlining 1) your motivation and relevant experience, 2) your overall approach to delivering this work, 3) your proposed budget and 4) whether you may be able to offer any separate in-kind contribution to this work. Responses should be sent by email to KHughes@wwf.org.uk by Midday on 1st March 2019.
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To express interest in this opportunity please provide a short covering letter outlining 1) your motivation and relevant experience, 2) your overall approach to delivering this work, 3) your proposed budget and 4) whether you may be able to offer any separate in-kind contribution to this work. Responses should be sent by email to KHughes@wwf.org.uk by Midday on 1st March 2019.
About the buyer
Contact name
Kathy Hughes
Address
The Living Planet Centre,Brewery Road
Woking
GU214LL
England
Telephone
01483 412536
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