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Linkages in the landscape : The role of corridors and connectivity in wildlife conservation
… World Parks Congress, together with the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, and with the full agreement of the IUCN … 1993a). Nature reserves and woodland fragments are also vulnerable to this degradation. Sizes of habitat patches … fragments with a high ratio of perimeter to area are more vulnerable to edge disturbance processes than are large …
Establishing marine protected area networks
… a real difference by sustaining or recovering wildlife and ecosystem processes; and o work on building networks should … o Ecologically. A network can help to ensure marine ecosystem function by encompassing the temporal and spatial … public understanding and protecting areas most vulnerable to impact from human activities. o Educate to …
Towards Networks of Marine Protected Areas: The MPA Plan of Action for IUCNs World Commission on Protected Areas
… role as climate moderator and provider of essential ecosystem services. Photo: NASA 3 Significant progress is now … tivity. This is to maintain but increasingly recover ecosystem structure, function and processes in order to … Some species groups, such as sharks, are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of human activities, especially …
Connectivity Conservation: International Experience in Planning, Establishment and Management of Biodiversity Corridors
… concepts aimed at maintaining and restoring ecosystem integrity have been undergoing rapid development … Papallacta, Ecuador: “The maintenance and restoration of ecosystem integrity requires landscape-scale conservation. … are functionally linked and buffered in ways that maintain ecosystem processes and allow species to survive and move, …
Aspects of Trans-boundary Snow Leopard Conservation in Central Asia
… Snow Leopard Network 2014). The Global Snow Leopard & Ecosystem Protection Program (GSLEP) was initiated by the … of the process is a set of 12 National Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Priorities (NSLEP) (World Bank 2013). One of the … polii in China and adjacent countries: conservation of a vulnerable subspecies. Oryx 42: 100-106. Snow Leopard Network …
Integrating biodiversity conservation and sustainable use: Lessons learned from ecological networks
… But how should these ecological networks be managed? The Ecosystem Approach, endorsed by the Parties to the Convention … effective ecological networks. IUCN’s Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM) has therefore dedicated its work … and sustainable development in this increasingly vulnerable forest persuaded various conservation NGOs in the …
The green belt of Europe: From vision to reality
… of scientific studies, most recently the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. The recognition of cultural diversity, … of extinction of populations that may otherwise become vulnerable to demographic and environmental stochastic … will identify priority areas for future activities, e.g. vulnerable habitats in undesignated areas or gaps in terms of …