<h2 style="text-align: justify; ">The following is a summary of the new strategy directions and objectives:</h2><div style="text-align: justify;">1 - Establishing a national network of protected areas and increase the effectiveness of their management.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2 -Integrating conservation programs for important species and natural habitats into large development projects and land-use plans.</div><div style="text-align: justify; ">3 - Developing a national Conservation Monitoring Center, which aims to maintain a national database on biodiversity that regularly publishes a national report on status of biodiversity in Jordan as a means to influencing decision-making processes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">4 - Redesigning protection and hunting regulation programs in order to direct efforts towards protected areas and important biodiversity areas.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">5 - Developing socio-economic initiatives which are linked to the objectives of protected areas, with the aim of diversifying sources of income for the local community and gaining more support to protected areas management.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">6 - Developing comprehensive programs for ecotourism in protected areas according to the zoning plans and visitor management plans.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">7 - Developing financial and management systems of income generation initiatives in partnership with the private sector, and monitoring these partnerships according to the best practices in this field internationally.</div>