- This article is about a conservation biology topic. For other uses of BAP, see BAP (disambiguation).
A
biodiversity action plan (
BAP) is an internationally recognized program addressing
threatened species and
habitats and is designed to protect and restore biological systems. The original impetus for these plans derives from the 1992
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). As of 2009, 191 countries have ratified the CBD, but only a fraction of these have developed substantive BAP documents.