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Advancing the Species Conservation Agenda. An overview of the IUCN SSC Network 2009 2012
… the risk of lake ‘burping’, where large levels of carbon dioxide are released from deep within the lake … Rhino Specialist Group updated the population numbers for Black and White Rhinos at its meeting in South Africa in … AfRSG meeting. • Updated continental numbers of white and black rhinos. • Reviewed the Red List entries for all African …
Rights-based approaches - Exploring issues and opportunities for conservation
… on Biological Diversity CCA Community Conserved Area CCBA Carbon, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance CDO Community … 10.6% of the Colombian population classify themselves as black and 3.4% as indigenous. The 1991 Constitution … owned by ethnic populations. In the Pacific region, 122 black territories, covering over 4.5 million ha and …
State of Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean
… City. Dendrobates Auratus (also known as the Green and Black Poison Dart Frog) at Panama Canal forest, Panama … reforesting degraded areas to capture the atmospheric carbon dioxide, etc.) is a mechanism that contributes to the … “Green jobs: towards decent work in a sustainable, low-carbon world”. Nairobi, Kenya State of Biodiversity in Latin …
State of Biodiversity in Africa
… areas for migrating and wintering waterbirds in the Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean region (BirdLife … including the removal of significant quantities of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. 23. Coral reefs are also … linked to the higher concentrations of dissolved carbon dioxide resulting from human-induced atmospheric …
Crossing Borders for Nature. European examples of transboundary conservation
… . . . . 71 vi vii Foreword Running from the Barents to the Black and Adriatic Seas, the European Green Belt forms the … from the Barents Sea in the north to the Adriatic and Black Seas in the south. With the vision of becoming the … www.nps.gov/archive/glac/resources/bio4.htm that conserve carbon rich habitats have the possibility of increasing the …
ITTO/IUCN guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests
… subject to critical review by the target populations. A black-capped lori in a logging concession in New Guinea. … protein consumed by both rural and urban populations Carbon sequestration The removal and long-term storage of … the skins trade has had an impact on large cats, the black caiman, the giant river otter and howler monkeys. The …
Guidelines for the application of IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Categories and Criteria (Version 1.0)
… A are derived from the distribution of the ecosystem (black), whereas the area of occupancy (AOO) is determined by … Box 6. Describing threats The Coolibah - Black Box Woodlands of south-eastern Australia is a … produce biomass, decompose organic matter and recycle carbon, water and nutrients, and also reduces the stability …
Biodiversity offsets: Views, experience, and the business case
… net positive impact) 11 Biodiversity offsets compared with carbon and other offsets 12 3 Why biodiversity offsets? The … is a particular mechanism in other contexts such as carbon trading and perhaps because terms such as “mitigation” … on-site, and a £50,000 offset for the conservation of black grouse in the Pennines. English Nature were able to …
EU Environmental Policies and Strategies in South-Eastern Europe - Training guidelines for involving CSOs from SEE in the implementation of EU nature-related legislation
… forests, hedgerows and shelterbelts, can act to sequester carbon and creates soils, substrate and vegetation with the potential to retain carbon. Ecological networks can provide physical measures for … 855-862. 89 • plus a number of rare species, including the Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), Eurasian …
The Futures of Privately Protected Areas
… the southern extreme of the Andean montane ecosystems, black-browed albatross, elephant seals and rich inter-coastal … Figure 5: Government protected area (grey) and PPA (black) coverage in Mexico. Note: PPAs were drawn larger than … for the property was both biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration (by removing stock from this former …