Current Protected Areas - PAs (National Parks, Wildlife/Forest Reserves, Sanctuaries, Hunting zones, including Sacred Forests) cover around 20% of the land cover and are thus beyond the 30 % global targets. Moreover, the effective management of the PA’s is hampered by funding and human resource constraints and the non-involvement of indigenous and local communities. Furthermore, the National Protected Areas System is not representative of the country's ecosystem diversity. As a response, new protected areas will be created in fragile and biodiversity hotspots where these will ensure a national representation of the six ecosystems. Priorities will aim to improve and sustain the status of threatened species through in-situ (gene/seed banks, wildlife sanctuaries, etc.) in fragile ecosystems of the marine and semi-arid ecosystems. A programme for the sustainable management of PAs, restoration of degraded PAs and valorisation of PA biodiversity will be established and implemented. An emerging approach to support management costs of protected areas as well as generate wealth for riparian communities to PAs will be to develop and implement an Access and Benefit Sharing scheme for national PAs. This will ensure that bioprospection, tourism and other uses of PAs effectively contribute to conservation and livelihoods.