Ensure that the management and use of wild species are sustainable, thereby providing socio-cultural, economic and environmental benefits for people, especially those in vulnerable situations and those most dependent on biodiversity, including through ecosystem-based approaches and sustainable biodiversity-based activities, products and services that enhance biodiversity, and protecting and encouraging customary sustainable use by indigenous peoples and local communities. 

1. Promote and encourage sustainable customary use of wild species
2. Develop management plans for the sustainable use of key wild species
3. Establish and/or determine the status of wild species being harvested
4. Strengthen the value chains of wild harvested species 
5. Develop standards, licensing and/or certification schemes for harvesting of wild species
6. Establish in-situ and ex-situ conservation programmes for priority wild harvested species requiring protection
7. Strengthen access and benefit-sharing mechanisms and regulatory framework
    

These considerations were taken into account through a participatory and consultative process. The process involved an inception workshop, a series of stakeholder consultations, technical working group meetings, and validation workshops. The process was coordinated by the Ministry of Environment, Climate and Wildlife (MECW), through the Department of Wildlife and Forestry Resources Management.

Contribution to KM-GBF Global Goals:

1. Global Goal A – Ecosystem and Species Integrity

• Supports the maintenance of ecosystem integrity and reduction of extinction risk by ensuring that use of wild species remains within ecological limits.
• Establishes scientific baselines, population assessments, and spatial mapping of harvested species to prevent overexploitation and ecosystem degradation.
• Invests in in situ and ex situ conservation and species recovery programmes that directly contribute to stabilising and restoring threatened populations.

2. Global Goal B – Sustainable Use and Nature’s Contributions to People

• Serves as the primary national mechanism for operationalising sustainable use by developing species-specific management plans, national harvesting standards, and ecosystem-based management approaches.
• Secures long-term provision of nature’s contributions to people, including food, medicine, energy, and income, while maintaining ecosystem functionality.
• Promotes biodiversity-based value chains that align economic activity with conservation outcomes, ensuring that utilisation enhances rather than undermines ecosystem services.

3. Global Goal C – Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing

• Protects and promotes the customary sustainable use of wild species by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs), recognising their role as stewards of biodiversity.
• Strengthens Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) mechanisms to ensure that monetary and non-monetary benefits derived from biological resources and associated traditional knowledge flow equitably to local communities.
• Reinforces rights-based governance by embedding equity and participation into biodiversity-based enterprises and management systems.

4. Global Goal D – Means of Implementation and Enabling Conditions

• Contributes to resource mobilisation by supporting the development of a national biodiversity economy that generates sustainable domestic financing and reduces reliance on external donor funding.
• Mainstreams biodiversity into national economic planning by promoting certification schemes, value-chain development, and private sector investment in sustainably harvested wild products.
• Strengthens institutional, regulatory, and market systems required for long-term implementation of sustainable use commitments under the KM-GBF.

1. International cooperation.
2. Policy and regulatory framework.