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Urban Protected Areas: Profiles and best practice guidelines
… by water pollution, trash and trespassing, including for illegal fishing and bird-hunting. There is no guard station. … of the risk of fire. Offshore, the main threats are from illegal fishing and taking of coral, invasive alien species, … and illegal plant collecting for the traditional medicine trade. By 2003, the Newlands Forest section of the park was …
Global Land Outlook
… land management practices. Our ability to manage trade-offs at a landscape scale will ultimately decide the … crop production.68 Mining – particularly when it is illegal and thus unregulated – also creates high levels of … low capacity of public agencies, corruption, and illegal activities have all been identified as indirect …
IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2 - A conservation assessment of all natural World Heritage sites
… international cooperation has resulted in action to tackle illegal trade of Siamese Rosewood, is one such site. The 241 existing … 2017, where it had been included in 2003 due to farming, illegal gold mining and poaching affecting its species …
National Blue Carbon Policy Assessment Madagascar
… in the next 5-10 years. 3. A zero tolerance policy on illegal wildlife trafficking and to stop the illegal traffic of wildlife products from the country to … mainstreaming tools across policy sections (fisheries, trade and export, water and sanitation, etc.). Clarifying …
Ecological Restoration for Protected Areas - Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices
… changes affect even well-managed protected areas, while illegal encroachment of people into the protected area, … costs will require prioritization and may include trade-offs among competing objectives and consideration of … local people as ‘honorary rangers’ to help remove illegal snares. More than 270 illegal snares have been …
Law, Policy and Dryland Ecosystems in the People's Republic of China
… protective land management measures or orders to restrict illegal conduct that is threatening sustainable use of … Heritage Convention), the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora 1973 … management has been poor and development uncoordinated. Illegal occupancy of grassland occurs due to unclear …
Cost and benefits of ecosystem based adaptation: The case of the Philippines
… options and resilience), or economic (globalization, trade, markets). Furthermore, the crisis is likely to impact … area was once 85.43 ha, today only 56 ha remain, due to illegal cutting and expansion of residential areas. Another … and which face a constant threat from encroachment and illegal logging; and 2) Mangrove planting: This is protecting …
Shared resources: Issues of governance
… 24 2.4.6 International Trade in … convention.11 The major problem has been unreported and illegal catches, most of them made by non-Parties to the … over half of the Patagonian toothfish catch is taken by illegal fishing conducted from countries that are not party …
Legal aspects of Connectivity Conservation Volume 1 - A Concept Paper
… Forestry Research CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CMS … on-site stresses such as poor management, pollution, illegal logging or fishing, introduction of invasive alien … This may occur even where those activities are illegal and the resources are already depleted (Mora and …
Helping nature help us - Transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management
… knowledge and understanding, we may risk undesirable trade-offs, missed opportunities in optimising synergies and … challenges such as ecosystem loss and degradation, illegal logging, pollution, overexploitation of marine … of biodiversity as a result of multiple threats, including illegal wildlife trade, habitat loss, climate change, air and …